Nobody cares how much you know unless they know how much you care.
Author unknown

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Reading aloud to children teaches vocabulary in one of the most natural ways possible. Most of the questions come from them rather than the teacher. Words that are puzzling can be quickly explained in the context of the story.
Frank B. May

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
Mason Cooley

Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips. They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools...can make it easy for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy.
Richard L. Allington

I have one rule--attention. They give me theirs and I give them mine.
Sister Evangelist RSM

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading……..something that will stretch their imaginations--something that will help them to make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.
Katherine Patterson

Children should spend more time writing. As well as being valuable in its own right, writing promotes ability in reading.
Becoming a Nation of Readers: The Report of the Commission on Reading.
Richard C. Anderson, Elfrieda H. Hiebert, Judith A. Scott, and Ian A.G. Wilkinson

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
S.I. Hayakawa