My nephew had an awful time learning to read because he, like his mother before him, memorised what was read to him without actually making the connection between letters and words. I was the one who found this out when I gave him a book for his 6th birthday and asked him to read it to me. “I can’t,” he replied, “you haven’t read it to me yet.” Somehow neither his mother nor his teachers were aware of what was going on.
My nephew had an awful time learning to read because he, like his mother before him, memorised what was read to him without actually making the connection between letters and words. I was the one who found this out when I gave him a book for his 6th birthday and asked him to read it to me. “I can’t,” he replied, “you haven’t read it to me yet.” Somehow neither his mother nor his teachers were aware of what was going on.