When and how did you learn to read?

elfen

Taught myself to read when I was about 2 (have memories of sitting in the library corner at playschool reading books) and pretty much whizzed through the reading levels. I'f I'm at uni....it's between 4-6 books a week, if I'm not...it can be 24+

KxMx

According to Mum I taught myself at a young age and read to a very high level. I was quickly on "red" books and my teacher would sigh when I brought it back so quickly, and would try and find me something else!

margaretclare

I don't remember learning to read or being taught to read. I don't ever remember a time in life when I couldn't read! Certainly, I could read by the time I went to school aged 5.

I think what happened was that we had few books for children (a very poor home) but I was read to by my aunt. We would read the same books over and over - a story about bears I recall, and one about a fox.

In my childhood there were few other distractions, no TV for instance!

hngrymummy

andrealm wrote: »

I do remember the first reading book we had at school, it had the word "look" on every page.

We had that one too. I read it in about 2 minutes, but was made to keep it for a week 'until I'd read it'

*Maya*

elfen wrote: »

Taught myself to read when I was about 2 (have memories of sitting in the library corner at playschool reading books) and pretty much whizzed through the reading levels. I'f I'm at uni....it's between 4-6 books a week, if I'm not...it can be 24+

Wow, I would never have the time for that. :eek: Maybe I'm a slow reader but with just a full time job, a house to clean, no kids and a bit of a social life I only have time to read in bed and average one book a week.

My friend is a Primary one teacher and says it's unusual for kids to read before starting school. It can be a real hinderance to them if they can as it can leave them frustrated in their first year at school which can really put them off learning and joining in with the rest of the class.
I learned to read in Primary one.

geri1965_2

elfen wrote: »

Taught myself to read when I was about 2 (have memories of sitting in the library corner at playschool reading books) and pretty much whizzed through the reading levels. I'f I'm at uni....it's between 4-6 books a week, if I'm not...it can be 24+

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

Callie22

hngrymummy wrote: »

We had that one too. I read it in about 2 minutes, but was made to keep it for a week 'until I'd read it'

I remember that - the absolute boredom of having to read a book four or five times because the teacher wouldn't believe that I'd read it so quickly. I knew all of the reading books by heart by the time I left that class ...

Primrose

Thankfully when I was a child we had no television - my parents absolutely refused to buy one on the grounds it would interfere with our homework, so indoor amusement came mainly from books or the childrens' radio. Looking back I'm glad of that. Reading greatly increased my imaginative capacity, and listening to stories on the radio also enabled me to draw my own mental pictures which was a much greater creative process than having it all presented for me on a screen.
My idea of HELL is a house without books.

Newly_retired

As above. Agree entirely. Don't you just hate it if you ever watch one of those home improvement programmes and they want to get rid of all the books?
Mind you I could do with getting rid of about 1000 of our 3000.

JC9297

geri1965 wrote: »

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

:rotfl::rotfl:

Yes, funny how everyone responding is saying how early they learned to read i.e look how clever I am. Nobody saying I never picked up a book until I got to school and it took me ages to learn. I'm amazed how people can remember so much about being 2 or 3 years old.