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How did you learn to read?
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| gmilf |
Yep, a pathetic attempt to use the cor to validate a thesis paper I am about to defend. Does anyone remember how they learned to read or anything in particular that stood out at that time in their life?
I personally remember next to nothing about that time in life. I remember a lot of Dr. Seuss style books that current research claims to be the worst type of literature to give children learning to read. Overall my claim is that people learn to read quicker when they are in a literature rich environment.
i.e. The words on paper are given real world context. Such as a poster that is blue having the word blue on it and hearing the word in relation to the poster's color within everyday speech. And phonics lessons are almost worthless. (I had to make some claim that went against the grain just to make it interesting to write)
Thanks!
COR version: Tell me how you learned to read. |
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| kadomony |
| woscar, you seein this? |
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| Lira |
I loved cars and maps when I was a kid. So I'd pick up bits from the names of car manufacturers and, after learning some more in school, I'd practise reading world maps.
Learning to read was my first battle against Babel, however. I was first taught to read and write in Italian and, once I learnt how to do it reasonably for a small kid, I moved back to Brazil and had to learn written Portuguese from scratch. Most sounds are the same, but I had some trouble trying to understand why "ci" had become "ti" and so on. The anger built up and I promised I'd fight language for the rest of my life.
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Edit: Phonics are unnecessary in Romance languages. It's not like you have to guess the reading of every other word as you kind of have to do in English :p |
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| Cloudburst |
| I couldn't read before I started school at the age of 7 and felt stupid. Learned in a week or so and have been reading since! :o |
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| Silky Johnson |
| I learned to read at home from my parents and older sister. I was reading full stories when I was 3 years old. Stuff like Chicken Little and Aesop's Fables. |
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| igottaknow |
| hooked on ebonics |
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| DaRoZa |
| goosebumps books and final fantasy 2 |
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| gmilf |
Thanks everyone! I am sure that I will be back on here at 3 in the morning when I wake up thinking or rewriting my whole paper before the deadline at 10am Tuesday :p
Side note- I ing loved the goosebump books, but they really went downhill after the main author stopped writing and they came out with a new one every week. One of the sort of fun parts about my profession is having an excuse to read a lot of kids books (this is where the kindle comes in handy so that people do not know I am reading something like "the lightning Thief" when I am sitting in a pompous coffee shop trying to act highbrow.
Cloudburst- you're story is the norm, most kids come in feeling really stupid especially since kindergarten is not required and some kids haven't seen a book until they walk through the front door of first grade.
Lira- ha, I didn't think about the phonics bit being somewhat unique to English but that makes complete sense. It sounds like your story validates my stance though.
IGK- Damnit, they do make ebonics kids books now. I could go on a long rant about how they are setting these children up for failure because we validate their culture until they reach High School when they are asked to prove themselves in a completely white middle/upperclass format and the ladder to success is pulled out from under them because their vernacular is no longer respected.
Thanks again everyone! |
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| wienerschnitzel |
| My dad read to me a lot when I was 3-4.. Wind in the willows, the classics. I'm sure it really gave me a head start. When I started reading on my own I read a lot of Archie comic books, that's how I sealed the deal.. |
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| VAR |
after my meteor spaceship pod crashed, a nice older couple picked me up in their old pickup truck.
they were kind enough to teach me things and sent me to school.
this was back in the time when people actually read books made out of paper. |
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| Happymess |
| My parents taught me. They read to/with me a lot. And at a later age I had a private tutor who taught me how to read the Quran (imagine a 5 year old learning incomprehensible Shakespearean-like speak), there was no greater source of dread. |
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