Suzanna and Darrell

> SandraDodd@... wrote:

>And the show said "Reading never just happens." I looked at Holly and she
>kinda smirked. She knew something scientists don't know.

I don't remember learning how to read. It seems as if I always knew how. I
remember reading a book called "The Runaway Pancake" to my kindergarten
class. (very similar to "The Gingerbread Man.") I don't remember my parents
reading to me when I was very young either. As I recall, I don't remember
them reading to us much at all until I was about 10 or 11. I don't know how
I picked it up, but I did. BTW my parents were FORCED to send me to
headstart when I was 4 because we were "underpriviledged", translate that to
mean poor. My mom tried to fight it, I am not sure why maybe stigma of being
poor, but she told me that apparently the government thought that being poor
also meant a non-enriched environment or stupid. I could read before I went
to headstart! We had World Book Encyclopedias and Child Craft. I can
remember even when I was very young taking not just the Child Craft out and
reading it on my own, but also the encyclopedia, for long periods of time. I
really enjoyed them, and I used them so much that my parents eventually just
moved the entire set into my room, so of course I bought a set for my
family. I have been disapointed that my own kids have not used them as much
as I did. They are starting to use them more though, now that I have been
trying to get out of the habit of telling them to go look something up when
they ask me a question, but instead now when they ask me something I say
something like "well, lets look it up and find out", or "I'll go look it up
and let you know" and then I go look it up and usually they come with me and
read along. Since I have changed my way of saying it, they now look up more
on their own, or ask me to look up something with them.

Remember Scout from To Kill A Mockingbird? She got in trouble when she
started school because she already knew how to read! If I remember right,
she learned from her father reading the newspaper with her. Hey, maybe
that's how I learned how to read! My dad and I shared a love for newspaper
comics, maybe he read them outloud to me and I just don't remember. He
passed away when I was 19, so I can't ask him.

Suzanna, who still loves to read and look things up; and still loves
newspaper comics.

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In a message dated 5/6/2002 3:53:14 AM Eastern Standard Time,
truealaskans@... writes:


> And the show said "Reading never just happens." I looked at Holly and she
> >kinda smirked. She knew something scientists don't know.
>
> I don't remember learning how to read.

Same here. I knew how to read long before kindergarten. I distinctly remember
being in K and writing long rows of "big E's" and "little e's" and wondering
why my parents put me in a class with kids who didn't know their letters or
how to read. My ds started reading without much input from me around his
fourth birthday and now reads at a "1st-2nd grade level." Luckily, this
occurrence made my homeschool-doubting family feel that I must be doing
something right! LOL
Amy Kagey
Usborne Books consultant
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