POLL: Early Reading Influences

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 1937

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Brooks R" <brooksar at i...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Vicki Merriman" <vjmerri at i...> 
> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
>  (snip)
>  
> >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.
> 
> 
Interesting poll. 

I am a voracious reader, my house is crammed with thousands of books, 
and both my ex husband and current partner are the same. At three, my 
son is already sounding out words, and starting to read. 

My parents read to me until I could read myself but not after that.
I read everything I could lay my hands on, I tried to read all the 
books starting with A, and I loved biography and history. In first 
grade, I was tested at a sixth grade reading level, but can't 
remember the rest of my tests.

Susan




> I kow I was read to when I was pre-kindergarten - but I DON'T
> REMEMBER IT.  Primarily by my mother, who read a lot.  But once I 
> learned to read in first grade, I outpaced everyone else in my 
class; 
> and after proving my ability in the different school I went to in 
> second grade, got special dispensation (when the 1st and 2nd 
graders 
> were restricted to a limited section of the school library with the 
> 'early readers' books) to be able to go to the section open for all 
> older students - I still remember trying to phonetically pronounce 
> 'rendezvous' in English, from a 6th grade-level 'future of space 
> flight' book (when there was still a possibility that the Gemini 
> capsules would land on the ground with a Rogallo Wing parachute 
> instead of water splashdowns)..... 
> 
> And speaking of space flight - a moment of silence please in honor 
of 
> the second human in space, Gherman Titov, who had been the last 
> survivor of the four men, two US and two Russian, of the 1961 space 
> flights..... 
> 
> I read _The Martian Chronicles_ in third grade.
> 
> Anyway - and then I won a 'number of books read' contest in 7th 
grade.
> But I didn't read Narnia till I was in college and my fiance told 
me 
> what I had missed; although I read LOTR as a freshman in high 
school 
> and loved it.  (Didn't read _Peter Pan_ until I was in college 
> either).  And I have only ever read the first Oz book.  I didn't 
read 
> any Raggedy Anne's until I was in my thirties!  (Of course they had 
> been out of print for a while by then).
> 
> -Brooks