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 daughter was the opposite. She was ‘reading’ to us at 3 – but books we’d read to her many, many times. Then my mother gave her a brand new ‘Clifford the Big Red Dog’ book – and my daughter read it out loud to us, word for word.
Templo S.U.D. over 5 years ago
two birds with one stone
orinoco womble over 5 years ago
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.
Troglodyte over 5 years ago
Sounds like a win-win situation, CB. Sort of.
GoComicsGo! over 5 years ago
P-Tisch!
ksu71 over 5 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CdVTCDdEwI
gantech over 5 years ago
The real gift was that Charlie Brown was there with her. And grandma understood that, even if she couldn’t hear.
julianhoward Premium Member over 5 years ago
My daughter was the opposite. She was ‘reading’ to us at 3 – but books we’d read to her many, many times. Then my mother gave her a brand new ‘Clifford the Big Red Dog’ book – and my daughter read it out loud to us, word for word.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
I don’t recall having reading problems. I just had other problems even worse. I dealt poorly with people below the norm.