Quotes About Literacy

I've heard from pre-K and kindergarten teachers alike that the Common Core is inappropriately pushing written literacy standards when the focus should be on the development of oral literacy skills. And that's actually delaying the development of literacy.

You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.

If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science.

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school!

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early on - not only in English, but in Hindi, too. My teachers didn't like the fact that I was reading more quickly than they were teaching, and as a consequence, I would sometimes get bored in class.

The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them.

I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.

By teaching us how to read, they had taught us how to get away.

Who'd have thought an Aiel could bloody read?

So if you want to be rich and maintain your wealth, it's important to be financially literate, in words as well as numbers. The

A person can be highly educated, professionally successful, and financially illiterate.

Financial literacy is the ability to read and understand financial statements which allows you to identify the strengths and weaknesses of any business.

So if you want to be rich and maintain your wealth, it's important to be financially literate, in words as well as numbers.

wats yr typ? people who can spell

And so, with extra Leslie help and a chorus of angels disguised as teachers and librarians for years unstinting with love and hours of practice, those ants finally marched in straight lines for me shaped words, danced sentences, constructed worlds for a girl finally learning how to read I unlocked the treasure chest and swallowed the key.

and i wrote My Name in big letters got my first badge, a library card

One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.

Europeans had lost the ability to read Greek