POLL: Early Reading Influences

[Vicki Merriman]

No: HPFGUIDX 1912

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Sister Mary Lunatic" <klaatu at p...> 
wrote:
> I've created a poll out of curiosity -- please pop over to the 
polls section
> of this e-group and vote. 

The polls are great.  I recommend everyone go vote.  The more the 
merrier.


 The question is:
> 
>      "Did your parents, other relatives, or teachers
>       read to you regularly as a child?"
> 
> One of the most vivid memories I have as a child is my father 
sitting in a > chair reading 

> It seems that most of us here are avid readers, and I was curious 
to know if> this trait was developed in early childhood, by others 
reading to us, or by> our discovering books on our own.

I wasn't sure which way to jump on this poll and finally went 
with "read to by parents."  My parents read bedtime stories when I 
was small, but didn't do much reading to me or my sister aside from 
that.  My dad had some bedtime stories he knew by heart (Stone soup 
was one of them.)  

However, we both read a lot from the time we could read because there 
were always books of various levels (from children's to adult)in our 
house and because our parents read a lot.  So while I would have to 
say that once I knew how to read my parents didn't read to me a lot 
except for some bedtime stories, I DEFINITELY think that I developed 
a love of books from my parents.  Sort of a combination of being read 
to while quite small but also from the example they set.  In our 
house, people read, if that explanation makes sense.

You might want to expand the number of answer choices, if that is 
possible once the poll has started.

Vicki