Re: CHAT: learning to read

fortytwo@ufl.edu writes:
>I'm amazed that people on this list can remember what system they used,
>I don't remember learning to read, other than a single, possibly
>unreliable memory, of a sudden breakthru in understanding; my memory is
>of struggling with reading, then suddenly "getting it", and not having
>problems, but I don't know how reliable that memory is, probably an
>exaggeration of a period of rapid learning, is my guess.
Well, at the time i didn't know what it was =). However, since my mother
worked at the school i went to, she knew what the style of teaching
reading was.  Also, my mom says that I pretty much picked up reading quite
fast. She can even remember me at three years old asking what the words
were on things like cereal boxes, etc. My own personal way was just to ask
what a word was, then when someone told me what it was i would remember
the word (and how it should be pronounced, so i read by remembering the
whole word, not just figuring out its sound and then figuring out what the
word should be (is that clear?)) . That's probably the reason my 9th grade
reading level was somewhere around College level. However, the system used
in my school at the time was phonics.

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