Best Reading Aloud Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When I read aloud to a person, is it not the same as if I was telling him something by word of mouth? The written, the printed word, is in the place of my own thoughts, of my own heart. If a window were broken into my brain or into my heart, and if the man to whom I am counting out my thoughts, or delivering my sentiments, one by one, knew already beforehand exactly what was to come out of me, should I take the trouble to put them into words? When anybody looks over my book, I always feel as if I were being torn in two.”

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Author:Goethe

“I have falling in love with reading.”

“I won a Kindle copy of this book on Goodreads Giveaways. Sweet book about what to expect the first day of Kindergarten. Helps take the scariness out of the unknown. Very well done. -Cheryl”

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Book:Mr. Shipman's Kindergarten Chronicles: The First Day of School

Source: Mr. Shipman's Kindergarten Chronicles: The First Day of School

“The best thing a father can give his children is not a toy, but a memory of his voice reading them into a peaceful sleep. That is the real legacy.”

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Author:Maksym Zahorulko

“The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and when I am very old, they will still be near . . .”

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Author:Margaret Sanger

“An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or a couple of pauses close together, contrasted with a longer unit of grammar.”

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Author:Robert Pinsky

“In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.”

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Book:The Gutenberg Galaxy

Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy

“Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear much resemblance to real-life dialogue. For example, if you've ever seen a word-for-word transcript of people talking, it doesn't read off the page very well. The trick is to make it *seem* like it's being spoken, not to make it speakable.”

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Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I always have music on unless I'm reading aloud, which I always do before I hand anything in. It's the only way to know if a sentence really works, without clunks or cul-de-sac clauses.”

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Author:Anna Quindlen

“Teachers have almost stopped reading aloud to their classes because of the pressure of testing and tight curricula, but it is the books we read together and talk about together that bring us closer together.”

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Author:Katherine Paterson

“Reading aloud is the best advertisement because it works. It allows a child to sample the delights of reading and conditions him to believe that reading is a pleasureful experience, not a painful or boring one.”

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Author:Jim Trelease

“Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues, a senator drunk on filibuster. I've got Tourette's. My mouth won't quit, though mostly I whisper or subvocalize like I'm reading aloud, my Adam's apple bobbing, jaw muscle beating like a miniature heart under my cheek, the noise suppressed, the words escaping silently, mere ghosts of themselves, husks of empty breath and tone.”

Source: Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel

“Sometimes when reading aloud to my husband, I'll start crying. It completely stuns me. As if the words in my body and on the page - in relation to each other - are cocooned against my own feelings about what I'm writing until they're loosed in the air and become their own. Then I realize what I may or may not have done.”

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Author:Julianna Baggott

“We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life.”

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Author:Katherine Paterson

“There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.”

“When I read to children, I try to become the characters. It's great if you can make a separate voice for each character. Sometimes you can lower your voice with excitement or get more intimate about it: you can lean forward and engage the children as a narrator or as a reader. It's particularly important that you find the voice that you want to use for each character, because then children can imagine that person as you're reading aloud. And of course, the illustrations help enormously.”

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Author:Julie Andrews

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”

Source: Letters

“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”

“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.”

“A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.”

“A house without books is like a room without windows.”

“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 make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.”

“The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and when I am very old, they will still be near . . . Memories of mother drying my tears, reading aloud, cutting cookies and singing as she did, listening to prayers I said as I knelt with my forehead pressed against her knee, tucking me in bed and turning down the light. They have carried me through the years and given my life such a firm foundation that it does not rock beneath flood or tempest.”

“Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.”

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Book:Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

“Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.”

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Author:Betty Smith

“The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it.”

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Book:The Read-Aloud Handbook: Seventh Edition

Source: The Read-Aloud Handbook: Seventh Edition

“Anything's possible in Human Nature," Chacko said in his Reading Aloud voice. Talking to the darkness now, suddenly insensitive to his little fountain-haired niece. "Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy." Of the four things that were Possible in Human Nature, Rahel thought that Infinnate Joy sounded the saddest. Perhaps because of the way Chacko said it. Infinnate Joy. With a church sound to it. Like a sad fish with fins all over.”

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Book:The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

“Madame V begins the lesson by reading aloud the first stanza of a famous French poem: Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville; Quelle est cette langueur Qui penetre mon coeur? Then she looks up and without any warning she calls on me to translate it. I swallow hard, and try: "It's raining in my heart like it's raining in the city. What is this sadness that pierces my heart?" Saying these words out loud, right in front of the whole class, makes me feel like I'm not wearing any clothes.”

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Author:Sonya Sones

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”

“The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who’s reading aloud—it’s the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.”

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Author:Mem Fox

“The greatest gift is a passion for reading.”

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Author:Elizabeth Hardwick

“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.”

Source: The Theory of Preaching: Lectures on Homiletics

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.”

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Book:The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes

Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes

“Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.”

“There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.”

“So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.”

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Author:William James

“You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.”

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Author:Rachel Cusk

“No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25 years of research show that reading aloud to a child is the oldest, cheapest and must successful method of instilling that desire. Shooting baskets with a child creates a basketball player; reading to a child creates a reader.”

“Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.”

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...”

“It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.”

“We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. Use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside.”

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Book:The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent- and every adult caring for a child-read aloud a minimum of three stories a day to the children in our lives, we could probably wipe out illiteracy within one generation.”

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Author:Mem Fox

“The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.”

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Author:Mem Fox

“Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and to express themselves more easily and clearly.”

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Author:Mem Fox

“If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that book later, or books like that, they will be able to read them - which is why even a fifth grade teacher, even a tenth grade teacher, should still be reading to children aloud. There is always something that is too intractable for kids to read on their own.”

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Author:Mem Fox

“With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.”

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Author:Beverly Cleary

“As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrapbook.”

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Author:Gary Ross

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”

“A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.”

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Author:William Hazlitt

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