Marilyn Jager Adams quotes
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“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.”
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“The two best predictors of early reading success are alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness.”
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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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Source : "Once upon a life" by A. N. Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2011.
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Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.14, Da Capo Press
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“Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.”
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“Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.”
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“There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.”
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“When it came down to technical skill and ability of the two teams, Croatia were far superior.”
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