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Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.

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.

You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.

I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works.

Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.