Quotes for the Month, April 2005

Theme: The importance of reading aloud to your children

“The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.”

Becoming a nation of Readers: The Report of the Commission on Reading

“Children who come from homes in which storybook reading takes place have an educational advantage over those who do not.”

Emerging Literacy: Young Children Learn to Read and Write   By Lesley Mandel Morrow

“The best way to raise a reader is to read to that child- in the home and in the classroom.”

The New Read-Aloud Handbook   By Jim Trelease

You may have tangible wealth untold:
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be-
I had a mother who read to me.

“The Reading Mother” from Best Loved Poems of the American People   By Strickland Gillilan

“Parents are the first teachers children meet. They are also children’s teachers for the longest periods. The success of the school literacy program frequently depends on the literacy environment at home.”

Literacy Development in the Early Years by Lesley Mandel Morrow