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05 May 2006, 3:17 pm

I learned to read before age 2. I don't know it happened, but I was a little older than 18 months of age when I got up on the couch next to my mom and began reading about the Smurfs Ice Show from the newspaper. She proceeded to ask, jokingly, if I was reading and when I replied, "Yes," she decided to test me. Since then I read any books my parents had in the house, most of which, by the way, were not always kid friendly.

I can still recall the picture from the newspaper I was reading - Smurfette was front and center, skating with her arms open... a couple of other Smurfs were in the background. Interesting to me that I can recall the picture, but the not process through which I learned to read.



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06 May 2006, 7:34 am

I have no idea how I learned to read. I just know that I was able to read and write with ease even before entering nursery school (at age 3½). I guess it must have come naturally and probably learned all by myself, much as my computer skills are basically self taught.

This was quite in contrast with my speech, as I effectively couldn't speak until I was 7, and had to have loads of speech therapy.



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14 May 2006, 9:30 am

I can't remember how I learned to read. I can remember however practising reading by........reading aloud to my stuffed toys. Yes, I was being serious.
In fact :oops:, even though I don't actually need to pratise anymore, I still occasionly read aloud to my stuffed toys. If that isn't :oops: enough, I confess that I am 15 and never lost this habit.



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14 May 2006, 2:28 pm

There was an alphabeth over the black board, and we went through a new letter avery few days.
Halfway through, I started to see all the data that were everywhere, signs and stuff, and haven't stopped reading stuff since.
My brother seems to have dyslexia, though, so he has barely read a book in his life that he wasn't forced to read.
Have always had a good memory for "useless data" which impresses on people. There's a girl I know who admires me like a sage or something.



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14 May 2006, 5:18 pm

I remember it very well because I had to teach myself and I'm so relieved someone else did this too. Now I know I'm not crazy. I got punished all through 2 years of first grade because I could barely read or write and my parents would never try to help me. But my sister explained sounding out words to me and I practiced a whole summer, then something clicked. Without my sister, I would be illiterate today. I have this weird backwards way of learning everything. And it seems to bother people that I can have total recall of some things I read but can't master a lot of everyday stuff, mostly involving dealing with people.



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14 May 2006, 7:57 pm

I cannot remember learning to read, but I think it must have happened very early. My grandmother enjoyed reading me stories, somehow it must have happened then. Anyway I could read by the time I entered kindergarten at age 4 (they didn't have pre-school back in the Miocene era when I was born).

I always loved to read and could get lost in a book; still do, still can.



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15 May 2006, 2:23 am

I don't really recall as to how I learned to read. I just know that when I was in school at a very early age, before I was in a school for special needs students, teachers used to be impressed that I'd rather read dictionaries than stuff other kids read. I was also oddly fascinated by words in general, with an almost savant nature in terms of spelling. At age 10 or so, I was one of the very few kids who could come close to spelling onomatopoiea. I only screwed up the i and the e. I later found out that was a word on some national spelling bee, which was like only a few years ago.

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15 May 2006, 12:04 pm

Did anyone else have an unusual reading preference as a child? I wanted to read encyclopedias and dictionaries all the time.



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16 May 2006, 2:47 am

I don't remember when I learned, but i knew how by the time I entered school. With my attention span, I would never have learned how to read in a classroom.

lae wrote:
Did anyone else have an unusual reading preference as a child? I wanted to read encyclopedias and dictionaries all the time.


I was also an encyclopedia connoisseur. By the time I was 8, I read everything I could about the War Between the States. I even managed to sit through all five hours of "Gettysburg"



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16 May 2006, 9:09 am

I don't know how I learnt to read. Apparently, I could already read when I started school. By then I was nearly 2 years ahead of the average. My writing has always been awful, though.

Oddly enough, my daughter could also read well before starting school. And I can honestly say we never, ever pushed her or made her do it. She just taught herself starting with learning all of the individual letters at about age 3. Then reading words on cereal packets, in shops and on the sides of lorries.

I probably learnt in a similar way. I still do try and read most things that pass my field of view.



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19 May 2006, 9:21 pm

lae wrote:
Did anyone else have an unusual reading preference as a child? I wanted to read encyclopedias and dictionaries all the time.


Oh yes, still do.

I read from about 3, I guess. I don't remember the specifics, but I can't remember NOT reading.


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20 May 2006, 4:15 pm

When I was in daycare (4 or maybe 3) I was really noisy, so the teacher, probably wanting a break, taught a few kids including me to read. The first word I wrote was Meow, although I think I wrote it Miau which is how you write it in Spanish. (I'm from Argentina; I lived in the US since I was 2 until I was 8, so English was my 2nd language but my 1st reading language. I learned reading in Spanish on my own, although when i moved back I rebelled and refused to write accents (árbol).)
It also helped that my mom read to me every night, pointing each word as she read it.
I remember that there were always scientific papers lying around the house, and sometimes I read parts from them (mostly just titles). As a consequence, when the 1st grade teacher asked for an A word, I said "Abstract!"

I love reading the thesaurus. My edition explains words in a really interesting way; for instance, "gay" (the happy meaning) is "Stresses complete freedom from care and exuberantly overflowing spirits".



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03 Jun 2006, 9:39 am

I don't remember how did I learn to read. My parents say I read ads on the road since I was 1 year and a half old. Unsurprisingly, the first word (or words) I read was "Coca Cola" ---> Coke. I only have a very difuminated memory of me reading newspapers when the adults were not reading anymore...



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04 Jun 2006, 12:17 am

I don't remember specifically learning to read - it's just always been there. In grade 4 (age 10) I was tested by the school and had a university-level reading ability.


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08 Jun 2006, 11:00 am

I remember learning when I was 3 1/2 or so.I learned because I had an old typewriter and was fascinated with the amount of words you could make combining the letters.



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08 Jun 2006, 11:20 am

i don't really remember exactly when i learned how to read, i just don't ever remember not being able to. but the most awesome reading experiance ever was when my mother took me and my brother to the public library for the first time. i six and i thought i'd gone to neverland. maybe that's why i love the smell of books.

oddly though, i couldn't tell time until i was around 8.


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