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historyfreak Member Since: November 2005 Contributions: 819 Gold Stars: 1 View User Posts	Re: Learning to Read Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:35 pm Central Time Hel66 wrote: 4 view Totally cute pic, Helen... is that your dad? Very good looking, even with the bunny rabbit.
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Hel66 Member Since: November 2005 Contributions: 633 Gold Stars: 77 View User Posts	Re: Learning to Read Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:02 am Central Time historyfreak wrote: Totally cute pic, Helen... is that your dad? Very good looking, even with the bunny rabbit. view LOL...yeah it's 'Old and Grey' before he got old and Grey!
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PZelda Member Since: December 2005 Contributions: 167 View User Posts	Re: Learning to Read Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:50 am Central Time I was 3 when I learned to read. I might even have been 2, I'm not positive. But I do remember that I knew how to read as early as 1988. My parents didn't teach me -- I started preschool early (age 2, in 1987). I was in the hearing impaired unit -- different from the special ed unit -- at a local elementary school in the late 80's, and the teachers in the HI unit were able to spend a lot of one-on-one time with the students. So, I was 3 when I learned to read, and reading on my own at 4. I knew how to type my name on a computer in 1988 - back in 1988, the school had Apple Macintosh IIe computers. Needless to say, that was fun! I was also able to strengthen my reading skills when my parents purchased an external closed captioning decoder unit for the TV in 1988. The captioning would be turned on when I watched my cartoons and other TV shows back then, so I picked up on that very fast. When we would have storytime in kindergarten, my teacher would sometimes ask me to come up and read from whatever book she picked out, and I had no problems with that. When I was in 3rd grade, I was reading at a high school level. By the time I got to middle school (5th grade), I was already reading at a post-high school level.
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Zoetrope11384EB Member Since: March 2006 Contributions: 322 Gold Stars: 67 View User Posts	Re: Learning to Read Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 10:36 am Central Time The first book that I ever remember reading was a Golden Book called "Pockets" when I was 3 years old. My mother had read me the story just before I went to bed, and after she finished reading the book, I wanted to read the book. At first, I was reading mainly by memory, but by the time I was 5 years old, I was reading with first graders. Even though it would not be another two years before I was in the first grade, I read aloud from books much better than the first graders I read with in school. As an adult, I still love to read aloud from books. For a short while before I started graduate school, I read textbooks aloud onto audio tape for college students who have difficulty reading textbooks. I also have worked for a volunteer organization that helps adults learn how to read and write.
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Poki1977 Member Since: July 2006 Contributions: 51 View User Posts	Re: Learning to Read Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 6:34 pm Central Time I know I could read when I was 2, because I was waiting in a bus station with my grandma when I started reading the headlines on a newspaper. I asked my grandma loudly what "rape" meant, and there was an uncomfortable silence all around. My family made a big deal about it, because nobody had taught me how to read, and they weren't quite sure how I'd learned. I remember being frustrated by reading. When I was 2-4, I wanted to read 'grownup' books. Whenever I had trouble with a word, I would get upset and cry. By the time I started first grade, my reading was tested at an adult level. I have always loved books!
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-Alan D Hopewell Member Since: October 2006 Contributions: 7558 Gold Stars: 1210 View User Posts	Re: Learning to Read Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:34 am Central Time I never remembered NOT knowing how to read, which kinda mystified me, 'til I was in my twenties...I asked my ma about it, and she told me that I'd taught myself how to read at two, with the funny papers. The really cool thing was, after she told me this, I could vaguely remember lying there on the floor with the Saturday(no Sunday edition then) Lorain Journal, and sussing out the words in the comics from the pictures. _________________ "I can do all things through CHRIST, Who strengthens me." -Phillipians 4:13, King James Bible Last edited by -Alan D Hopewell on Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:29 pm; edited 1 time in total
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87baby Member Since: December 2006 Contributions: 4 Gold Stars: 8 View User Posts	Re: Learning to Read Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:18 pm Central Time I was 2 when my dad would have me read a page of the newspaper to him daily. I used to pray he'd pick the comics, but it was always the front page. Then, at night, he'd read me Dr. Suess books before I went to bed. Warped, huh?
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short and cute Member Since: December 2006 Contributions: 90 Gold Stars: 20 View User Posts	Re: Learning to Read Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:42 pm Central Time All right! Is everyone here a child prodigy or something? I am a reading specialist and have six and seven years olds who can't read at all and even the best students in their class who I meet with once a week or so can read, but I doubt they've been reading since they were one or two. I know i started reading at 4 and I was taken into the kindergarten class in preschool because I could read so well.
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Gremashlo Member Since: March 2006 Contributions: 2343 Gold Stars: 208 View User Posts	Re: Learning to Read Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:18 am Central Time I was about three--my older sisters spent a whole summer with old copies of the Blue and Red Readers (of "See Dick. See Dick run" infamy) and basically forced me to learn--it was the best thing they ever did for me. I've loved reading ever since. _________________ How can you be two places at once when you've never been anywhere at all?--The Firesign Theatre
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mikeport Member Since: December 2008 Contributions: 172 Gold Stars: 4 View User Posts	Re: Learning to Read Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:19 pm Central Time 4-5. Mom made it interesting- she read comic books to me!
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Hel66 Member Since: November 2005 Contributions: 633 Gold Stars: 77 View User Posts	Re: Learning to Read Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 4:41 pm Central Time I started at age four when I started school but loved it and still remember the thrill of getting on to 'free readers' which were books that were past the reading scheme. That was when I was 6.
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misty jade Member Since: April 2006 Contributions: 165 Gold Stars: 21 View User Posts	Re: Learning to Read Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 5:59 am Central Time short and cute wrote: All right! Is everyone here a child prodigy or something? I am a reading specialist and have six and seven years olds who can't read at all and even the best students in their class who I meet with once a week or so can read, but I doubt they've been reading since they were one or two. I know i started reading at 4 and I was taken into the kindergarten class in preschool because I could read so well. view I don't think that it's a case of rampant prodigy-ism, but people who are very familiar with the language and who read and write very fluently (which happens when you've been practicing since toddlerhood or preschool), and who have been well educated are those more likely to post things like this online. I would bet most of the folks posting on this topic had lots of exposure to the printed word from the time they were able to lift their heads and stare out of their cribs. Print-rich environment, I believe it's called. I know I was born into one and always had it available to me...god bless my parents. They're readoholics too. I don't remember learning to read English. i just know that I was reading independently by three years of age, but books were an integral part of my life much earlier. My parents have pictures of me going around at no more than one and a half years with a book tucked under my arm. Apparently this was standard for me then, and I can tell you I haven't changed much in the years since. I've always got a book (or four) somewhere on my person. My room has three separate bookcases, which doesn't count the ones stuffed in drawers and stacked on nearly every flat surface, the bookcases in other rooms, etc. My favorite spot in Montessori pre-school (I started there at age two) was not the playground, but rather, the book corner. I've got cards from multiple library systems and use them regularly. Frankly, I think I'd go a little bit bonkers without a steady stream of new (and old favorite) reading material. I did have one of those "By George, I think she's got it!" reading moments as an adult when I was studying Japanese. I was learning the kana characters and remember vividly the day I was looking at an imported, untranslated manga and realized I knew what the characters meant so I could sound out the word AND that the word also had meaning because it was a term I knew. What a great feeling!
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bunnymousekitt Member Since: August 2008 Contributions: 25 Gold Stars: 71 View User Posts	Re: Learning to Read Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 5:08 pm Central Time My brother, who was college age when I was born, tells me that as a toddler I used to sit and stare at books for hours because I believed that if I stared long enough, the knowledge would suddenly come to me. I do remember being intensely frustrated at not knowing the words. I didn't learn to read until I started kindergarten, though. Once I did, the ability came all at once and the next thing I knew, I was attempting to plow through my bro's philosophy text books. lol That probably explains so much about what an odd little kid I was...
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