Quotes on Reading Aloud

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent- and every adult caring for a child-read aloud a minimum of three stories a day to the children in our lives, we could probably wipe out illiteracy within one generation.

We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. Use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside.

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.

Anything's possible in Human Nature," Chacko said in his Reading Aloud voice. Talking to the darkness now, suddenly insensitive to his little fountain-haired niece. "Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy." Of the four things that were Possible in Human Nature, Rahel thought that Infinnate Joy sounded the saddest. Perhaps because of the way Chacko said it. Infinnate Joy. With a church sound to it. Like a sad fish with fins all over.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25 years of research show that reading aloud to a child is the oldest, cheapest and must successful method of instilling that desire. Shooting baskets with a child creates a basketball player; reading to a child creates a reader.