Inevitably, there will be many aspects of culture that would benefit from a more reflective or contemplative approach to them. Maryanne Wolf Read Quote
We would be the worst of fools if we would ever lose this extraordinary capacity to go beyond the limits of past thought and past prejudices. Maryanne Wolf Read Quote
The first and most common reason for not being a fluent reader is that the child does not yet know how to decode very well yet. They lack automatic decoding skills, and this prevents them from being able to read accurately, much less smoothly and quickly. Decoding accuracy is the first prerequisite to fluency. Maryanne Wolf Read Quote
It’s an individual waste and it’s an economic waste for Australia not to recognise dyslexia. Maryanne Wolf Read Quote
Digital technology can be a great resource, but it can also be a pernicious one, so it’s how we, as a society, really study the cognitive impact of that and use evidence-based research to go after the technology designers to do a better job of dealing with the problems of memory and attention we are seeing. Maryanne Wolf Read Quote
We are the worst of fools if we do not teach every child to become truly expert, deep readers. Maryanne Wolf Read Quote
I want children to learn to develop deep reading skills in the beginning in print. I believe the physicality of print is much better in the beginning for children, and then help them learn how to use their deep reading skills on digital medium. Maryanne Wolf Read Quote
I don’t want technology to replace teachers, but where there are no teachers, or the teachers are overwhelmed, it can be helpful. Maryanne Wolf Read Quote
Deep reading refers to a whole continuum of processes that include some of the most important things about thinking and how we connect thought to what we read – critical analysis, analogical reasoning, how we infer from the text, how do we take another’s perspective. Maryanne Wolf Read Quote
