Subject: do you remember learning to read?
Posted by: Rowena8482
Date: Jan 07 09
I have a very clear memory of standing at a closed piano reading "The Cherry Tree Family" (book one of the school reading scheme) to "Nurse Sandra" in nursery school, so I would have been 3 or 4. I can't ever remember not being able to read, or actually learning to read, just that day actually reading the book and then being thrilled as I could move on to the next one. They had to be read in order, and I can't even remember the names or anything about any of the others that came after the first one.
I remember my room at home being labelled everywhere with the names of things like curtains, door, wardrobe, etc and being able to read those too.
Can you remember a time when you couldn't read? Or remember actually learning?
Posted by: Rowena8482
Date: Jan 07 09
I have a very clear memory of standing at a closed piano reading "The Cherry Tree Family" (book one of the school reading scheme) to "Nurse Sandra" in nursery school, so I would have been 3 or 4. I can't ever remember not being able to read, or actually learning to read, just that day actually reading the book and then being thrilled as I could move on to the next one. They had to be read in order, and I can't even remember the names or anything about any of the others that came after the first one.
I remember my room at home being labelled everywhere with the names of things like curtains, door, wardrobe, etc and being able to read those too.
Can you remember a time when you couldn't read? Or remember actually learning?
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Christinap 
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We've probably all done something like that at some time or another - a certain way to make you want to read or watch or listen to something unsuitable is for your parents to tell you not to do it. I've read "The Fog" and it scared me when I was an adult Reply #21. Jan 10 09, 5:55 PM |
satguru
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What I know is my mother started me off at home before I went to school when I would have been 2. I vaguely remember being shown some books and talked through them, but I was in nursery school just before I was three as I was bored at home just with my mother or child minder and could already read and just about write by then as I still have the books I wrote in. It may sound unusual but I have it in writing! Reply #22. Jan 10 09, 7:43 PM |
klinews
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I don't remember learning to read. My mother says I was about 3 when I started reading street signs and out of children's books. Reply #23. Jan 17 09, 9:20 AM |
uscgx2
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I attended parochial school and we had the Dick & Jane books (See Spot Run. Run Spot Run.) It was love at first sight. Reply #24. Jan 19 09, 11:13 PM |
Midget40
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I don't remember the actual process but I remember how quickly I grasped it. We used to come home with our reading with like 'pages 5 -10' or something and I used to just read the whole book everynight. I wanted to know what happened. I couldn't understand why no-one else did. I remember a friend looking puzzled at me one day when I said I'd wanted to finsh the story and saying "What story?" To her they were just words she had to sound out. Reply #25. Feb 27 09, 3:11 AM |
Hannah500
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Reading was a favorite hobby in my family, so I was interested in learning to read! Most of the time, I was in the #1 reading group in grade school. Reply #26. Jun 02 10, 10:26 AM |
| Hineboxing
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I started learning to read when I was 3. My mother told me she remembers me trying to sound out some nasty words that were spray-painted on the side of a building somewhere. "Mommy, what does F*** mean?" LOL Reply #27. Jun 02 10, 11:07 AM |
Rowena8482
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Lol Hine. My daughter did something similar to that yesterday - we were looking at my son's football cards for the World Cup and she had an "unfortunate moment" with Nigeria and ended up shouting "look there's a N---er an" :-| Luckily we were at home and I could tell her the proper pronunciation and that the "other is a naughty swear word" so she won't say it again. Kids usually seem to manage to demonstrate the swear word they overheard most recently just when you really really don't want them to! It's a knack they all have lol. Reply #28. Jun 11 10, 6:35 PM |
tezza1551
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I could read long before I went to school and was totally confused by it. I also went to school speaking English as my first language, but bits of Malay (from a Singaporean born mother) and Noongar (Indigenous language) from my dad. I'm told that when I cut my foot in year 1, I informed the teacher "saya sakit genna".. "saya sakit" being Malay for I'm hurt.. and "genna" being Noongar for foot. On a slightly different note, I recently heard of a small Noongar boy who informed his teacher she was "moorditj". Without bothering to ascertain what he had said, she rushed him to the principal for swearing at her. "Moorditj" is Noongar for "good" or "great". Result: one small boy a little less enthusiastic about school. Reply #29. Jun 11 10, 7:36 PM |
blindcat78
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I can't remember when I learned to read, but I do remember the day that I started to learn how to read & write Braille. When I read silently I can read between 70-100 words a minute. However, reading out loud, I'm much slower. Reply #30. Jul 14 10, 5:55 PM |
| cowdom
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I remember learning to read, and come from a family of readers. I read a lot of Dr. Seuss before I was in school. I remember reading The Little Lame Prince when I was about four. My dad would read one paragraph and have me read the next. When I started school, Dick and Jane and See Spot Run seemed kind of lame to me. Reply #31. Jul 14 10, 10:07 PM |
rayven80
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I remember sitting on the floor at my house with mom in her chair telling me to "sound it out". I started with books on dinosaurs and in 4th grade my favorite book was "Clan of the Cave Bear". Reply #32. Jul 16 10, 12:18 PM |
spamster101
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They first thing I remember reading was Harry Potter when I was six and having no idea what was going on. Reply #33. Jul 28 10, 10:18 PM |
Creedy
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I used to love having Anne of Green Gables read to me when I was small, so when I started school, would get the book out of the library and flick through the pages and pick out words here and there I knew and add the rest in my mind. Then one day, after one or two years at school, I found I could actually read all the pages without having to actually invent the words myself. It was an amazing day. Lol, I can still even remember which way I was facing at the time. Standing up, wearing a blue and white dress, and facing south right in front of a bookshelf full of L.M. Montgomery books. Reply #34. Aug 08 10, 11:22 PM |
| skyrunner84
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I learned to read when I was four years old. In fact i first learned to read "There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly" Reply #35. Aug 25 10, 12:37 AM |
Wildisthewind
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Not Yet! No really I do remember Peter and Jane, and all the Ladybird books. Reply #36. Aug 25 10, 4:10 PM |
MotherGoose
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I too cannot remember a time when I could not read. I learned to read very early. My mother loves to tell the story about how, at the age of about 4, I embarrassed her in front of a dinner guest (elderly great-aunt) by passing comment about the contraceptive pill. Trying to shut me up, my mother told me to be quiet as I did not know what I was talking about. Naturally, I protested that I did. Mum then made a fatal tactical error; she said "Okay, smartie, what is the pill?" and I replied "It's a pill ladies take to stop them having babies". Absolutely flabbergasted, my mother asked "Where on earth did you learn that?" "I read it in the newspaper". Aunty's comment: "They print far too much in the newspaper these days". On a slightly different note, many children teach themselves to read at a very young age. I work for a paediatrician. We had a child in the clinic this week who, at the age of 3 years and 3 months, is a self-taught reader. We tested him on the Holborn Reading Scale and he reads at the level of 9 years and 9 months, which is as far as the scale goes, so we actually can't gauge his limits. This creates a real problem with respect to his school placement in trying to balance intellectual needs with other skills, such as fine motor and social skills, which are nowhere near as advanced. Reply #37. Oct 09 10, 9:05 PM |
wyambezi
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In a word...no. :) Reply #38. Jan 02 11, 8:58 PM |
merip
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According to my mother. My ability to read was "caught" not "taught". One day I couldn't read, the next I could. (I was 5) Reply #39. Jan 22 11, 3:39 PM |
tinamomnsox
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I don't really remember much, but I know I was reading and writing by 3 1/2. Reply #40. Jan 22 11, 6:14 PM |
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