Re: CHAT: learning to read

>From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:
>Barry Garcia wrote:
> > Well, i grew up learning through the phonics system.
>
>I'm amazed that people on this list can remember what system they used,
>I don't remember learning to read,
I don't remember not knowing how to read.  But I would guess that's fairly
common for those of us with exceptional verbal skills. (So exceptional that
we get bored with our native languages very quickly?)

>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.
>
>--
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



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