When and how did you learn to read?

*Maya*

brighthair wrote: »

I read on my own aged 2. Reading has always been my "thing" and caused me nothing but trouble at school. Accused of being a liar by a teacher as I couldn't have read the book in the time I had it. She told me to go away and not come back until I had read it properly :mad:
It's not unusual for me to read 5 or so books now in an 8hr work shift, I kept a diary last year and read pretty much a book a day. An average size paperback takes me about 45 mins to read
Mum read to me from the minute she found out she was pregnant, and then when I was born

Hmmm. I would be very surprised if anyone could read five books in 8hours, never mind when they're "at work" :think:

RAS

My recall goes back a long way and I cannot remember not reading. I can certainly remember being able to read lots of nursery rhymes out to my sister when I was three and half years old, because I remember arguing about the exact words.

Again, I was through the junior reading scheme before I was officially in the Junior School and on the library books.

brighthair

JC9297 wrote: »

So you spend almost half of your working day reading! What job do you do and does your employer know?

sorry should have added - this is on night shifts, and yes it is allowed

brighthair

*Maya* wrote: »

Hmmm. I would be very surprised if anyone could read five books in 8hours, never mind when they're "at work" :think:

See, this is exactly the attitude I have had my whole life, and now I have given up justifying it. I do read that fast, I take out about 25 books a week from the library, and my job allows me to read when I am at work at night
The university used me as a study for part of a friends course, and apparently it is something to do with the way your eyes move. If I look at a book, I can see the 2 pages at once, I don't read line by line

Flyboy152

brighthair wrote: »

I read on my own aged 2. Reading has always been my "thing" and caused me nothing but trouble at school. Accused of being a liar by a teacher as I couldn't have read the book in the time I had it. She told me to go away and not come back until I had read it properly :mad:
It's not unusual for me to read 5 or so books now in an 8hr work shift, I kept a diary last year and read pretty much a book a day. An average size paperback takes me about 45 mins to read
Mum read to me from the minute she found out she was pregnant, and then when I was born

Blooming 'eck, that was quick.

Flyboy152

*Maya* wrote: »

Hmmm. I would be very surprised if anyone could read five books in 8hours, never mind when they're "at work" :think:

That depends on the size of the book. Biff, Chip and Kipper are only six pages long.

faithcecilia

brighthair wrote: »

sorry should have added - this is on night shifts, and yes it is allowed

I worked as a temp one summer, manning the phones and making tea for a little company. I was allowed to read there, and while I don't read the way you do, I was certainly getting through 8-10 books a week.

Savvy_Sue

JC9297 wrote: »

So you spend almost half of your working day reading! What job do you do and does your employer know?

My first job post-Uni was my dream job, a Braille proof reader! Yes, I read Braille, but not with my fingers, visually. They were changing their transcription systems, and I was one of the first presented with a folded printout of scattered full stops.

I was also accused of not doing the job properly because I proof-read so fast, my first few volumes were re-read by blind proof-readers (who were reckoned to be superior to sighted ones) and they were astonished at how few errors I had missed, especially given the speed I was going at.

I think I proof-read the same way I type, there's a sort of residual memory if anything is wrong which comes back to nag at me. When I'm typing, my fingers tell me something's not right faster than my eyes do.

At least they did before I clobbered my shoulder. This is two handed typing but I can't keep it up for more than a few minutes!

tiamai_d

geri1965 wrote: »

You must be a slow learner, I was reading by the time I left my mother's womb.

I too remember my little bookshelf on the placenta with fondness.

Actually I have no idea when or how I learned to read. I can read now, thats good enough for me.

DS1 learned in P1 but had no interest in reading till P2. Had a bedtime story every night, looked at books but wasn't interested in reading and I saw no reason to push him. His reading is perfect now at age 9.

DS2 is in P1 and learning to read. Very difficult for him because he has speech problems, poroblems with using language etc. He can only count to 5. After 5 he 'forgets' the numbers, can't do any math beyond 3. And probably a whole load of other issues yet to be discovered. But every night for the past few years he will sit and pretend to read a book.

DD is only 17 months (or there abouts I lost count) and seems to be more interested in books than her brothers. If she shows an interest in wanting to read (rather than just be read too) then I will teach her words as we go along.

Savvy_Sue

it's given me great delight today that DS3 has been home, at my request, to fix the dodgy TV and shower. And while he was here he was raiding the bookshelves, and discussing what he'd like with DH. He was the one I thought would never really do it for pleasure, because he never did as a child, whereas the other two always had their noses in books. And yet, here he is, raiding our bookshelves! :j:j:j

(Even better is that he has fixed both TV and shower! :j:j:j)