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kami
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response 25 of 41:
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Mar 11 20:10 UTC 1994 |
I, too, have no memory of being unable to read. I do remember sitting on my
father's lap and reading the words I knew, later the sentences, then trading
off paragraphs or whole pages. I was able to read simple books by age 4, and
al through elementary school my test scores were high enough to raise the
average of the class noticeably. Unfortunately, I was "smart" enough that it
was very hard for me to get help when I did not understand- such as in math.
It was just assumed that if I was capable in one area, I could handle all the
others. Pity, I'd like to have learned some math.
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brighn
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response 26 of 41:
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Jul 7 00:11 UTC 1994 |
I got promoted out of Kindergarten after three days because I could read. I
don't know how old I was when I started, but my parents made a concerted effort
to prevent me from knowing how to read until Kindergarten (and failed). They
were concerned that I wouldn't "fit in"if I knew how to read before the other
kids. Hey, they were right, but it's too late now. ;-)
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kami
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response 27 of 41:
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Jul 14 05:19 UTC 1994 |
sometimes it's just hopeless...<g,d,r>
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brighn
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response 28 of 41:
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Jul 14 15:18 UTC 1994 |
Well, Kami, I do fit in now, just not with the group that they'd hoped for.
<g>
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kami
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response 29 of 41:
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Jul 14 19:22 UTC 1994 |
We ARE the people our parents warned us about...<g> Oops, this doesn't
belong in the language conference, quite. Oh, well.
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keesan
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response 30 of 41:
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Jan 12 18:48 UTC 1998 |
Not all grexers were child prodigy readers. My roommate (Deigert) still does
not really know how to read, and did not really start reading until Books on
Tape. There are people at the other end of the bell curve. Deigert always
wondered why there were more exceptions than rules. Reading was not a problem
in getting along with other kids, just with the teachers at school. School
was like a word game that you could never win. Sports were no problem.
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gelinas
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response 31 of 41:
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Apr 16 05:30 UTC 2000 |
I don't know when I started reading, but my parents have said I was playing
Scrabble before Kindergarten (which I started the same year as Larry).
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mwg
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response 32 of 41:
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Apr 21 15:03 UTC 2000 |
Like some of the others who posted years ago, I have no direct memory of
not being able to read. My mother told me that she taught my sister and
me to read when she got tired of being asked to read everything in sight.
Early on, I read some of the standard (for the time) school book club
stuff, like The Three Investigators. At some point, I got my hands on
some Science Fiction books, and my pattern was changed forevermore.
My reading speed eventually (by way of a Picospan system named M-Net and
the failure to learn about pagers for a few years) got to the point where
I can read a medium sized novel in under 4 hours if not disturbed.
Life has gotten busy and I find it annoying that I am down to 2 or 3 books
a week now. (ducks flying tomatoes). Yes, I am aware that there people
who would be ecstatic to finish a book a week, all I can suggest is turn
off your pagers for a year or two, you'll be amazed at the results.
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vikasgp
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response 33 of 41:
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Jan 23 10:14 UTC 2003 |
I distinctly remember having learnt to read at the age of two. In fact, since
I knew the alphabet by the time I reached kindergarten, I felt a sense of
superiority, and that got translated into abundant self-confidence throughout
primary school. I felt like the king of a small kingdom. That got altered when
I saw more of the world :).
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jmsaul
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response 34 of 41:
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Mar 23 14:39 UTC 2003 |
Wow, this is an ancient item.
I could read when I was two.
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coyote
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response 35 of 41:
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May 1 04:38 UTC 2003 |
I think that I learned to read when I was between 3 and 4. I know I was
reading already when I entered kindergarten, but only simple things. I
remember that with texts that were too complicated for me I woul scan my
eyes along each line without being able to read the words. I think I did
this half to try to learn how to read better and half to try to impress people
by looking like I was reading "advanced" material (like our school
newspaper).
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kingjon
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response 36 of 41:
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Jan 17 02:12 UTC 2006 |
I'm not sure when I learned to read (I hope my parents have this conference in
their cflists so they can say more precisely!), but it was before kindergarten,
and my parents first tried to push it at me for a while when they thought I was
ready, but I wasn't, so they eventually gave up. A few months (or so; I only
really know this story from being told it over and over again after-the-fact)
later I crawled up on the back of the couch and started trying to read the
McGuffy Reader over my dad's shoulder.
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naftee
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response 37 of 41:
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Jan 17 22:28 UTC 2006 |
whoa.
your parents use GreX ?
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gracel
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response 38 of 41:
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Jan 20 18:35 UTC 2006 |
<enter the first parent>
My family lore has it that my brother taught me to read when I was four.
This I don't remember; he later taught me two-digit multiplication,
and how to take a square root, but the more arcane physics concepts
were beyond me (he teaches college physics now, in Texas). I do
remember being bored in the reading circles in first grade.
As for Jonathan: at some incredibly early age he had learned the names
of the letters, from some magnetic letters on the refrigerator
("no, dear, that's not a 'g', it's a 'b', a green 'b' -- would you
like some more applesauce?") so every once in a while we would try to
see if he could fit the letters together into words. Mostly, of
course, he couldn't.
Then one holiday season when J. was four-going-on-five, we were
visiting my parents out-of-state. My dad brought out a set of McGuffey
Readers (facsimile readers) that had my name in them from the dark ages,
and asked if I still wanted them. Dave had not seen them before, and
was looking at the first one when Jonathan came up next to him.
I think I was off in the kitchen, so I don't know whether J. just
spontaneously started reading aloud or whether Dave asked him to
try. Certainly Dave called me in and asked whether I had
been working with Jonathan on this.
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kingjon
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response 39 of 41:
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Jan 20 18:40 UTC 2006 |
Thankfully, in *my* first grade there were a couple of other students at a
similar reading level (but only two others in the whole grade), so I wasn't
particularly bored.
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naftee
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response 40 of 41:
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Jan 21 04:35 UTC 2006 |
How cute. GreXer family.
my first words were a curious mix of english and french.
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juicy
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response 41 of 41:
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Apr 22 19:02 UTC 2006 |
i don't recall when i learned, but i believe my parents have said it was
around age 4. i do recall that by 8th or 9th grade, i was at a "13th" grade
reading level. . .
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