Marilyn Jager Adams famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Marilyn Jager Adams

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The two best predictors of early reading success are alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness.
-- Marilyn Jager Adams

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If the process don't transfer, they cannot even be called thinking. They can be called learning, memory, or habit, but not thinking. The purpose of a course on thinking is to enhance student's abilities to face new challenges and to attack novel problems confidently, rationally and productively.
-- Marilyn Jager Adams

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I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.
He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition
Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.
When it came down to technical skill and ability of the two teams, Croatia were far superior.

Marilyn Jager Adams famous quotes

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