Comments on: Learning to Read http://trythisathome.net read. write. revive. Wed, 02 May 2012 13:10:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: W. http://trythisathome.net/learning-to-read/comment-page-1/#comment-134 W. Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:17:53 +0000 http://trythisathome.net/?page_id=147#comment-134 I remember when I was 2 or 3, I really wanted to learn to read. I asked my babysitter to teach me. I thought it was something you could learn in a day and be done with. I sat on the table and my babysitter wrote down "dog" "cat" "and" "the", and other easy words. I was proud of the few words I knew. When I was four I could read, but not well. In kindergarten I finally began to grasp it for real, and I sometimes wonder if my babysitter helped me that day. If, maybe, those few words jumped out at me forever, and made learning to read easier. I remember when I was 2 or 3, I really wanted to learn to read. I asked my babysitter
to teach me. I thought it was something you could learn in a day and be done with. I sat on the table and my babysitter wrote down “dog” “cat” “and” “the”, and other easy words. I was proud of the few words I knew. When I was four I could read, but not well. In kindergarten I finally began to grasp it for real, and I sometimes wonder if my babysitter helped me that day. If, maybe, those few words jumped out at me forever, and made learning to read easier.

]]> By: juno http://trythisathome.net/learning-to-read/comment-page-1/#comment-20 juno Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:34:18 +0000 http://trythisathome.net/?page_id=147#comment-20 Thank you, Erin. I like what Tammy has to say very much. Thank you, Erin. I like what Tammy has to say very much.

]]> By: Erin Woods http://trythisathome.net/learning-to-read/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Erin Woods Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:20:31 +0000 http://trythisathome.net/?page_id=147#comment-18 A friend of mine has a similar story and ideology about learning to sing. Hope you have time to check it out. http://createasinger.com/about.htm A friend of mine has a similar story and ideology about learning to sing. Hope you have time to check it out.

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]]> By: Chris Canfield http://trythisathome.net/learning-to-read/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Chris Canfield Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:32:38 +0000 http://trythisathome.net/?page_id=147#comment-15 I love Katherine's "books were the best parents our parents ever subcontracted." Don't get me wrong, I loved the six Duggan kids who raised me weekends when my parents golfed, and nights when they did the '70s' cocktail, dinner and general party circuit. Still, as I've said in other posts, I was raised more by the idiot box than books. Life's been grand and all, but it's hard not to regret that it took about fifteen years for me to capitalize on that moment when the letters I'd been so hoping would become words if I stared at them enough DID become words. Didn't I read somewhere that those 15 years I was zoning out were somehow formative? Maybe when I was 41 and my beloved dog BJ died, my mother's sweetest comment ever, "You and BJ grew up together," would have been a different sweetest comment ever had I read a third as much as my children (who've read 30 times more than I). Off to prepare breakfast for my daughters who will be "down in a few pages." I love Katherine’s “books were the best parents our parents ever subcontracted.” Don’t get me wrong, I loved the six Duggan kids who raised me weekends when my parents golfed, and nights when they did the ’70s’ cocktail, dinner and general party circuit. Still, as I’ve said in other posts, I was raised more by the idiot box than books. Life’s been grand and all, but it’s hard not to regret that it took about fifteen years for me to capitalize on that moment when the letters I’d been so hoping would become words if I stared at them enough DID become words. Didn’t I read somewhere that those 15 years I was zoning out were somehow formative? Maybe when I was 41 and my beloved dog BJ died, my mother’s sweetest comment ever, “You and BJ grew up together,” would have been a different sweetest comment ever had I read a third as much as my children (who’ve read 30 times more than I). Off to prepare breakfast for my daughters who will be “down in a few pages.”

]]> By: katherine sandoz http://trythisathome.net/learning-to-read/comment-page-1/#comment-14 katherine sandoz Sat, 16 Oct 2010 12:03:32 +0000 http://trythisathome.net/?page_id=147#comment-14 Not sure when I first started to read or where, but I do remember spending eight or ten hour days reading almost anything - and stacks of it - with you at my side. Books were the best parents our parents ever subcontracted. Not sure when I first started to read or where, but I do remember spending eight or ten hour days reading almost anything – and stacks of it – with you at my side. Books were the best parents our parents ever subcontracted.

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