Re: CHAT: learning to read

On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 08:03:10 CDT, "J.Barefoot" <ataiyu@...> =
wrote:

>Something bothers me about how children learn to read these days. =
Parents
>buy tapes and games and "Hooked on Phonics," but I think if they would =
just
>read to the child regularly there wouldn't be so much of a problem.  =
That's
>how I learned to read (probably why I'm biased to the method, though it
>seems the simplest), though I think I could actually recite "Goldilocks =
and
>the Three Bears" before I could read it. Nevermind, I'll stop babbling =
now.
>
>Jennifer
My mom tells me that when I was young, I would point to the letters of =
the
alphabet and insist on being told what they were. Sesame Street came out =
in
the late 60's but by then I already knew the alphabet, and I was reading
well before I got to first grade. I don't have clear memories of the =
first
three years of school, but I'm pretty sure they used phonics or a similar
method.

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