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At what age did you learn to read?

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I read a simplified version of Chicken Licken when I was 2 and a 1/2! :) That's English. I forgot Chinese.

I believe I taught myself around the age of 2.

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But I didn't read Shakespeare at the time ;)

In Germany, you start school when you're 6, but I taught myself a few words from my favorite books...

Btw., what was the first book that you read on your own back to back? In my case, Peter Pan. And the first book that was really mine was "Pippi Longstockings" (at least I think that's what it's called in English, right?)

No idea. I can't remember not being able to read. (But my memory isn't great:()

5 or under i think. i remember having reading competitions with this kid called Warren at school... we were the best in our class :)


*shines his "I can read!" badge* ;)

I believe I taught myself around the age of 2.

I believe your mistaken.

I believe your mistaken.

Why is that?

EDIT: you're ;)

At what age did you learn to read?

Oddly enough, I don't remember. My mom says I was reading street signs, billboards, and comic books before age four. Not just "Looking at the pretty pictures" but reading them, and asking questions about what the longer words meant. I don't recall.
I was reading before I hit Kindergarten, though. (the only time in my life when being smarter was more popular than being better-looking or stronger among my peers.)
and books-without-pictures before first grade.

You missed out a "I've never learnt to read" option in the poll. Which I think should be ironic, what with everyone having to read that to answer it. Of course, it's probably just cruel. And even if it wasn't, I've just gone and ruined my joke. Ho-hum.

Well, I could read when I started school, and that was when I was 4...so probably about 3-4 or so.

Why is that?

EDIT: you're ;)

Unless you have an unprecedented I.Q, I dont believe a two year old child has the mental development to grasp written language, beyond recognizing familiar shapes.
At any rate, no such child could teach himself this skill.

Unless you have an unprecedented I.Q, I dont believe a two year old child has the mental development to grasp written language, beyond recognizing familiar shapes.
At any rate, no such child could teach himself this skill.

Well my first primary school teacher was rather surprised when I read 'Roger Red Hat' to her with no help.

Well my first primary school teacher was rather surprised when I read 'Roger Red Hat' to her with no help.
OMG! Roger Red Hat was awesome!

Unless you have an unprecedented I.Q, I dont believe a two year old child has the mental development to grasp written language, beyond recognizing familiar shapes.
At any rate, no such child could teach himself this skill.

I find it more amusing to laugh at people who are not aware they are being laughed at. You ruined the fun. :P

I don't know...Billy Blue Hat was my favourite. I did like the Old Man on the Hill too.

Well my first primary school teacher was rather surprised when I read 'Roger Red Hat' to her with no help.


Wich assuming you started at about 5 or so, would mean you likely learned to read at age 4 or so, wich would not be out of the norm.

Two year olds just aint got the capacity, except in rare exceptions.

I find it more amusing to laugh at people who are not aware they are being laughed at. You ruined the fun. :P


sorry..its late and Im tired...

I don't know...Billy Blue Hat was my favourite. I did like the Old Man on the Hill too.
what I never understood was why Jenny and Johnny Yellow Hat?! J and Y?! (i think it was Jenny and Johnny anyway)

Wich assuming you started at about 5 or so, would mean you likely learned to read at age 4 or so, wich would not be out of the norm.

Two year olds just aint got the capacity, except in rare exceptions.

Bearing in mind that that was all we had to read at the time - so underprivileged *sob* - I probably could have read something more advanced like...I can't think of anything appropriate at the moment.

what I never understood was why Jenny and Johnny Yellow Hat?! J and Y?! (i think it was Jenny and Johnny anyway)

Yes, that was kind of strange. And why did you never see their parents?

Yes, that was kind of strange. And why did you never see their parents?
there was obviously something a little dodgy going on there

there was obviously something a little dodgy going on there

It's funny how these things never occur to you as a child, isn't it?

Well my first primary school teacher was rather surprised when I read 'Roger Red Hat' to her with no help.

I think it's mostly the idea of a 2 year old teaching the skill 'all by himself' that sounds bad. No 2 year old can related 'odd pictures' like letters, to sounds and the words without someone reading them. I'm thinking of your mother/father with a little book showing you the picture of a cow, with COW written in huge letters beneath it and showing the letters one by one.

My parents didn't bother learning me to read, so i learned it in 'first grade'. I could however do very basic math at an early age. I remember that before i went to school, i was better at math than my friends in second and third grade. I have no memory of my parents teaching me to count for fun (a la 'how many fingers am i holding up'), but i'm sure they must have done it. After that, i must have pestered them with questions like 'what comes after 10', '100', '1000'? what is a million?'

It's funny how these things never occur to you as a child, isn't it?yeah, and then you get older and forget about it completely, then somebody brings it up and now I just don't know how I'm gonna sleep tonight with worrying about poor Jenny and Johnny Yellow Hat!

I think it's mostly the idea of a 2 year old teaching the skill 'all by himself' that sounds bad. No 2 year old can related 'odd pictures' like letters, to sounds and the words without someone reading them. I'm thinking of your mother/father with a little book showing you the picture of a cow, with COW written in huge letters beneath it and showing the letters one by one.

My parents didn't bother learning me to read, so i learned it in 'first grade'. I could however do very basic math at an early age. I remember that before i went to school, i was better at math than my friends in second and third grade. I have no memory of my parents teaching me to count for fun (a la 'how many fingers am i holding up'), but i'm sure they must have done it. After that, i must have pestered them with questions like 'what comes after 10', '100', '1000'? what is a million?'

Maybe my parents had those alphabet books when I was a baby (I don't really remember), but I don't think they really bothered after the age of 1. Maybe I just picked things up from hearing them talk, I don't know. I'm getting kind of bored of this conversation now. It's quite clear I'm not going to convince you.

yeah, and then you get older and forget about it completely, then somebody brings it up and now I just don't know how I'm gonna sleep tonight with worrying about poor Jenny and Johnny Yellow Hat!

Don't forget the fire that wreaked havoc on...wherever it was that they lived. I think it was started by the boy with the green hat - George?

I have to say, I believe I may also have learned at the age of two. I was at a montessori school from two through four, and one of the first things they taught us was the alphabet. Then it was just a matter of picking up the "see spot run books" and sounding out the printed stuff.

At what age did you learn to read?

No thanks. I just took my vitamins. :)

I was pretty young. Probably about 4. I taught myself using Sesame Street as a guide. :p

I have to say, I believe I may also have learned at the age of two. I was at a montessori school from two through four, and one of the first things they taught us was the alphabet. Then it was just a matter of picking up the "see spot run books" and sounding out the printed stuff.
i think it's the fact he said that he taught himself rather than the age

Don't forget the fire that wreaked havoc on...wherever it was that they lived. I think it was started by the boy with the green hat - George?
oh god.....you'll be giving me nightmares!

Not too long after I turned 3. I pretty much taught myself, through watching Sesame Street and playing on my NES a lot.

Though, my dad says he always sat down with me and taught me words... He must think I have no memory whatsoever.

at 6, early enough to go to school.

When the day is only 12 hours long, there are more important things to do than learning to read.

I was 2 when I learned to read music and 3 when I learned to read print. I started doing math at 4, including basic algebra at 5. I committed my first murder at 6... ;)

~Czardas, Supreme Ruler of the Universe

Around 3, 3.5 I believe. A friend of mine claims to have been reading newspapers at 4. I'm not sure if I believe him but it sounds bloody impressive anyway.

under 5. Yay for fairytales on tape

My dad was really big on my education but I started when I was 5. Jeez, you people started at 2 and 3? That's... weird.

OMG! Roger Red Hat was awesome!
Oh, no, he wasn't! Those books were soooo boring! Give me Biff, Kipper and Chips any day!! Strange how those names come back so easily...

I read a doctor's name tag as he pulled me out of my mother's womb. I then held an intellectual conversation with a nurse as she was cleaning all of that nasty umbilical mess off of me. Shortly after that (3 days) I was code breaking for the NSA. My I.Q. is a hefty 934,326,325,685,885,345,125,268,214,345,745,346. :eek:

You missed out a "I've never learnt to read" option in the poll.

There really should be - one could have software/a secretary that reads the text out loud and then dictate the response to it/him/her ;)

"Read" as in simple words and sentences around age 4. Read as in capable of finishing a childrens book in less than a week about 7-8. Read as in reading a few 100 page paperback in a few hours.. about 14.

I learnt to read at about 2 years old, my mum used to sit me on her knee while she read books/newspapers and point/sound out the words to me. I can't honestly remember not knowing what the letters meant - i've always read anything I can get my hands on, whether it be the back of the cereal box at breakfast or the fire warnings on curtains ;) My teachers didn't know what to do when I got to school at 4 and could already read the 'Tom an Pippo' books they taught kids to read on.

I never read all of those kids books. I was reading tv subtitals before first grade. After that I never read much at all until the third grade when my dad pressured me into reading Homer's Illiad. I realized that with a book I was capable of expanding my mind and brain power. I know that they say your I.Q. doesn't really "grow" but that is a damn lie. I took an I.Q. test in the fifth grade b/c my parents were conserned about my strange behaviour. My I.Q. was 134. Nearly ten years later my I.Q. measures at 147.
Speaking of reading, have any of you ever read Ender's Game. and what about the Wheel of Time series. You should, they are great. By the way, how many of you truly know what I.Q. stands for? I bet not that many.

My mother says I was reading at around 2 years old. Well ... not *reading*, but recognizing the printed word. As for whether I knew what it meant is anybody's guess.

My earliest memory of actual reading was getting to spend 20 minutes every day at school reading "To Kill A Mockingbird" to this girl, Michelle, who asked me to. It was Kindergarten, so I was 5 at the time.

I had an advantage over many of my classmates, though, as I started Hebrew classes at 3, so I had a firm grasp of reading by the time I entered public school.

My mother says I was reading at around 2 years old. Well ... not *reading*, but recognizing the printed word. As for whether I knew what it meant is anybody's guess.

My earliest memory of actual reading was getting to spend 20 minutes every day at school reading "To Kill A Mockingbird" to this girl, Michelle, who asked me to. It was Kindergarten, so I was 5 at the time.

I had an advantage over many of my classmates, though, as I started Hebrew classes at 3, so I had a firm grasp of reading by the time I entered public school.
Shut the hell up you dumb ass.

I never read all of those kids books. I was reading tv subtitals before first grade. After that I never read much at all until the third grade when my dad pressured me into reading Homer's Illiad. I realized that with a book I was capable of expanding my mind and brain power. I know that they say your I.Q. doesn't really "grow" but that is a damn lie. I took an I.Q. test in the fifth grade b/c my parents were conserned about my strange behaviour. My I.Q. was 134. Nearly ten years later my I.Q. measures at 147.
Speaking of reading, have any of you ever read Ender's Game. and what about the Wheel of Time series. You should, they are great. By the way, how many of you truly know what I.Q. stands for? I bet not that many.

Ender's Game is great, as are the rest of the books in that series (have you read Ender's Shadow, btw?) and IQ stands for Intelligence Quotient

Shut the hell up you dumb ass.


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Actually, I think it's possible to have learned how to read by age 2. I'd worked out the CityRail Network Map (current one can be found on this site (http://www.cityrail.info/) at probably 2 and a half, plotted an "unassisted daytrip" and at about 3 (I think) actually did it. lol.

In my first year of school (Kindergarten, age 5), the teacher would often leave me to read to the class when she had to duck out for a minute (like for a quick phone call).

I learned to read last week... but then again, I'm only 16

I remember when I was in Kindergarten my dad was going back to college to finish his bachelor's, he had to read The Odyssey. Every night I would insist that he would read me a book, so he read me The Odyssey, after that I could read on my own.

Weird huh?

i cant remember when i started to read. i do remember using hooked on phonics though lol...

I learned to read before the age of two, shortly after learning to speak. Seriously. Actually, my parents have no idea when I learned to read since I had memorised all my books by the time I was 18 months old. I can still recite one of them today.

I then spent the majority of my childhood being an antisocial bookworm. Although I think, in general, the fantasy worlds beat the real one.

I was between 3 and 4 at the time, though I've always been fairly linguistically apt. And what I mean by that, is common sense.... there was several times I can remember in primary one where I was translating words that they were supposed to be teaching us just by the context they were in... estimate, biplane, all that jazz.

I counter-balance my ability to understand most common words that I happen to have never heard of with being utterly hopeless at maths (I'm 18 and do mathematics at a 12-13 year old level. or at least that was the last time I passed a maths test without being "assisted".)

Apparently, I taught myself to read at the age of 3 by reading the want ads in the paper. :cool:

I was reading sometime around 3. I'm not sure when it was, because I have no recollection, but my mother says I was an avid bookworm, making her buy me a new book every time we went to the store, and after a while I was reading them to her instead of the other way around.

I do have a very clear recollection when I was 4. My older brother had left his first-grade reading textbook on the table, and I had some time to kill, so I read it from cover to cover that morning. I found it engrossing, challenging, and entertaining. Two years later I was issued that same textbook, and I thought it was a joke.

About two weeks after joining NationStates.

I could read at nursery school, about 3 years old for definite. But I didn't learn there, so...I dunno.

Shut the hell up you dumb ass.

It's possible, I could read by the time I was two, although admittedly at a basic level. (Peepo, My Pet Goat, things along those lines :p)

i could read at 3 but i started reading books regulary at 4 (books like dr seuss, etc)

No one is exactly sure, but as my mother tells it she discovered I could read when I was 3 or 4. Seems my older brother taught me to read, so that I could read what he was writing on the walls behind the furniture. Apparently I was the only one small enough to fit back there to read it. I have never had any memory of learning to read, as far as I can recall I have always been able to do so.

I was reading sometime around 3. I'm not sure when it was, because I have no recollection, but my mother says I was an avid bookworm, making her buy me a new book every time we went to the store, and after a while I was reading them to her instead of the other way around.

I do have a very clear recollection when I was 4. My older brother had left his first-grade reading textbook on the table, and I had some time to kill, so I read it from cover to cover that morning. I found it engrossing, challenging, and entertaining. Two years later I was issued that same textbook, and I thought it was a joke.

Wow. I was ahead of the class in reading, but not quite that far ahead. Congrats.

I attribute my good spelling (I'm the resident dictionary :p) to being read to and by reading at an early age. I don't read much these days, but I still like a good book.

It's possible, I could read by the time I was two, although admittedly at a basic level. (Peepo, My Pet Goat, things along those lines :p)

Well it's like I said. I have no recollection, but my mother tells me I was recognizing the printed word at 2. I didn't really begin to really read until nearly 4 and the first novel I read was "To Kill A Mockingbird" at 5. TKAM isn't exactly high level reading.

I'm not sure what dookie pimp's problem is.

from my best recollection I learnt to read at 6 and didn't show much interest until school threatened to hold me back when I was 7

I always had trouble in English stuff I was always seemed more interested in the girls at school (and still are :cool: )

I came out my ma with a copy of War & Peace in my hands.

I always had trouble in English stuff I was always seemed more interested in the girls at school (and still are :cool: )

lol.

strange how most people could read when they were 2 on here no wonder everyone on here seems a bit freaky and just out right robotic

but of course I make up for my naff ability to sit still and read by having a super imagination you should see me write poetry (which by the way I hate and wish I couldn't)

strange how most people could read when they were 2 on here no wonder everyone on here seems a bit freaky and just out right robotic

but of course I make up for my naff ability to sit still and read by having a super imagination you should see me write poetry (which by the way I hate and wish I couldn't)

lol. Even funnier.

But as long as you have an imagination (so many people lack it these days) you're forgiven. :)

btw, I can also write poetry, though I don't do it much, I'm more of a songwriter. But I'm pretty sure there's links to some of the stuff I've written in a thread buried deep in the abyss of General...

but of course I make up for my naff ability to sit still and read by having a super imagination you should see me write poetry (which by the way I hate and wish I couldn't)

Are you saying people who can read have no imaginations? I can't even begin to go into how wrong you are. I could apparently read at two and am an accomplished song writer ... which requires music *and* poetry ... and am a music teacher, which requires tons of imagination and creativity.

I am certainly no robot.

Well ... maybe a little ...

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Hey baby ... wanna kill all humans?

Shut the hell up you dumb ass.

wtf is your problem. get a life and realize this thread is meant to be a light-hearted discussion.

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o, and if you like the wheel of time series, you'll prolly like the sword of truth series as well. another good book series is the death gates cycle (and it's actually finished)

the first book i remember reading over 200 pages long was The Dragon on the Border, before that it was choose your own adventure and the hardy boys, but after the dragon on the border, i turned to fantasy series.

(still remembers reading the wheel of time in all his english classes and the teacher not having a problem with it)

Do children actually have the ability to read at age 2 or 3? I find it hard to believe that all of the posters on here are being truthful about this.

Somebody show me some data on this.

Do children actually have the ability to read at age 2 or 3? I find it hard to believe that all of the posters on here are being truthful about this.

Somebody show me some data on this.

While she was pregnant my ma accidentally swallowed War & Peace and it was somehow transmitted into the womb completely intact.

While she was pregnant my ma accidentally swallowed War & Peace and it was somehow transmitted into the womb completely intact.

One letter at a time, and you put it all back together. :p

My mother used to read to us from an early age. My grandmother used to give us books as presents. By age four, I had read my way through a whole library of kids books, and my parents had to move me to the municipal library (my Dad used to spend an hour looking for 3 books he'd read during the week, we could only take one, and used to read more sitting in the big comfy chairs by the window, nothing could pry our attention away from books). I was well able to read when I started school at the age of four, but I'm not sure when I actually started to read myself. I was reading Roald Dahl by 6, and had progressed onto Tolkien by 9. I will now read anything, partially because I'm unemployed and bored.

I think it's sad now, my brothers are 15 and 17, and have never read a single novel apart from the ones they're forced to read in school...

One letter at a time, and you put it all back together. :p

Don't be absurd!

I think it's sad now, my brothers are 15 and 17, and have never read a single novel apart from the ones they're forced to read in school...


i completely agree with this sentiment. it's sad that anyone won't read a book unless they have to.

Do children actually have the ability to read at age 2 or 3? I find it hard to believe that all of the posters on here are being truthful about this.

Somebody show me some data on this.

It depends on the parents and how much access they allow to basic reading material. Kids in Ireland now are expected to know their ABC's/123's before they start school. We taught my little sister to count to 10 when she was 18 months old, then again, this kid is a total genius...

Bah, 10! At that age I was filing the tax return!

i completely agree with this sentiment. it's sad that anyone won't read a book unless they have to.

I know, we loved reading so much, we used to 'sneak read' by the night light after lights out, used to stay up till we collapsed with exhaustion. I wear glasses now to remind me of the years of eye strain.

My mother gave the older brother a copy of Stephen Kings short story, 'The Long Walk' to read. He managed 3 pages in a week....

my mother taught me when I was 3 as she was a student teacher at the time and I was her guinea pig lol

my son is 4 and can read simple sentences but I never push him as I believe that pushing him could turn him stale on the whole idea

he also knows his 2 and 3 times tables and can add simple sums without his fingers - mainly because we play number games :)

Do children actually have the ability to read at age 2 or 3? I find it hard to believe that all of the posters on here are being truthful about this.

Somebody show me some data on this.

I have no hard data, but I am a parent of three children who could all read by three years old quite effectively.

The first thing I knew how to read was Toys R Us, which was shortly after I learned to speak. So 2-ish? According to my parents.

My mom had me reading and writing (very basic writing though) before I went to kidergarden.

My mom said I was reading Dr. Seuss when I was 3... She helped me sound out things, and then I was off!!!

Wow, nobody learned to read when they were older than 6. I'm surprised.


~Czardas, Supreme Ruler of the Universe

Wow, nobody learned to read when they were older than 6. I'm surprised.


~Czardas, Supreme Ruler of the Universe


Me, too. So many people I know cannot read above a 1st grade level—and they're in my classes. It's sickening.

Me, too. So many people I know cannot read above a 1st grade level—and they're in my classes. It's sickening.

this is because people who play nationstates aren't the typical person who dislikes books. i mean, to RP in a text-based environment, you hafta read, right, and therefore must like to read?

I started learning to read in kindergarten when I was 4/just turning 5.

who the hell woted 12 or older god demn tard

who the hell woted 12 or older god demn tard

How nice of you. :rolleyes:

I know it was very young, because everyone was surprised!! Maybe 2 or 3? :confused:

Well, I do know my elder cousin told me that I was reading from her sixth grade reader when I was four with no mistakes, so... :rolleyes:

I read a doctor's name tag as he pulled me out of my mother's womb. I then held an intellectual conversation with a nurse as she was cleaning all of that nasty umbilical mess off of me. Shortly after that (3 days) I was code breaking for the NSA. My I.Q. is a hefty 934,326,325,685,885,345,125,268,214,345,745,346. :eek:

Impressive. What was the conversation with the nurse about?

Originally Posted by Manethren86
I read a doctor's name tag as he pulled me out of my mother's womb. I then held an intellectual conversation with a nurse as she was cleaning all of that nasty umbilical mess off of me. Shortly after that (3 days) I was code breaking for the NSA. My I.Q. is a hefty 934,326,325,685,885,345,125,268,214,345,745,346.

3 days? Ha! I was breaking RSA at 7 hours of age.

I learnt to read very quickly once I was taught. School began at the age of 7 for everyone at that time. There were no options then. The benefit of this for the teacher is that everyone in the class, even the stupid brats, learnt to read within the same semester. Of course, they taught everyone to write at the same time.

Wow. I was ahead of the class in reading, but not quite that far ahead. Congrats.

I think a lot of my current success can be attributed to my language skills, but it certainly wasn't all fun and games in school. The first lesson with that first-grade reader I'd finished at age 4 was agony. It was in a reading group of about 6 students with the teacher sitting in. Listening to the other students stutter and struggle was like nails on a chalkboard, and seemed to go on for eternity. My contempt came out when it was my turn to read, and my teacher quickly recognized that she had a problem on her hands.

I give her a lot of credit, though, because she clearly did the best she could. After being turned down flatly by my parents when the school recommended skipping me a grade, she arranged for me to head down the way to a 2nd-grade class for reading and spelling lessons, then return for the rest of the day. Later on in the year she contrived to have her own 1st-and-2nd combination class, and I only had to move across the room for those lessons.

That was first grade. The rest of the time no such arrangements were made, so I was bored and irritated through the remainder of elementary school. If they hadn't had honors and AP classes in secondary school, I probably would have gone completely anti-social.


Do children actually have the ability to read at age 2 or 3? I find it hard to believe that all of the posters on here are being truthful about this.

Somebody show me some data on this.

What we've got here is a general survey, and everyone has a different interpretation for what "ability to read" means. So it's not exactly useful.

I know that I had not memorized the alphabet or discovered phonics prior to kindergarten. My reading ability came from a childhood photographic memory (which has apparently run out of toner). After a while I read common words often enough that I could recognize a pattern of symbols as belonging to a particular word. The transition from memorization to the understanding of phonic construction was probably the biggest difference between my reactions to that first-grade reader at age 4 and age 6.

None of the above. I never learned to read.

7 years old. Up until then I never really grasped it at all. Apparently I may have had hearing problems or something. Then I went to a special reading class that was just me and 2 other students and I learned within a few months. 2 years later, I was reading the copy of A Brief History of Time my dad got me for my ninth birthday. Everything I read was science-based, probably because I had been raised on the discovery channel (maybe I could've read earlier if I had spent that time trying to read).

None of the above. I never learned to read.
And yet typing comes so naturally...hmmm...

*displays Santa Barbara in a museum of oddities next to the bearded lady*

No idea. I can't remember not being able to read. (But my memory isn't great:()
Likewise.

I don't remember when it was, but my dad told me about a time when I was two years old and I saw a McDonald's and said, "look, Mommy. McDonald's!" And they found out I knew it was McDonald's because I recognised the symbol of the golden arches (which I think I called "that big yellow M") and my two year old brain associated it with McDonald's. My parents were floored.

I could read a little at 5 (I knew the alphabet), but I wasn't really able to really read until 6.

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I'm the youngest of my parents' three offspring, so by the time I was born, Mom had bought every single Dr. Seuss book published (at the time).

It's thanks to him that I can read. Ave, Dr. Suess, wherever you are.....

I learned when I was 4: some book about abecedary. I only remember letter C for "Carcel" (jail). That should tell me something.

:eek:

I can't remember exactly how old I was but when I was at kinder (pre-school, I think, for non-Australians) -- so about 4 -- my mum was told off for teaching me to read. She hadn't tried to!

I didn't learn to read until I was seven years old. My idiot child teacher for some reason thought I had some retardation. It was just an overactive imagination which found anything she said to be boring. Her soloution was to sit me down with a kid who had Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and give us headphones to listen to books on cassette. I was held back at the end of grade 2 because this moronic approach completely failed to produce any results, much like anything else the stupid bitch did in the name of "teaching".

My mom taught me to read over the course of that summer. We had moved to another province during that time and my new teacher couldn't figure out why I'd been made to repeat second grade. When he gave me a literacy test midway through the year, my reading level was already at a Grade 5 level. The next year I was put into a special "Enrichment program" with all the brainy and nerdy kids, where I fit in just fine...until I decided the teacher was inept.

This experience made me assume a default attitude of contempt for any of my teachers (except my mom of course)

Any children I have will be taught how to read by me or their mother (pref. both) You can't trust something so important to be done by some random stranger (which is what any teacher is, in effect)

I learned around 2-3. My parents were big on video games, and I played them constantly. I had to learn to read, so I could play certain games.

Edit: By seventh grade, I read at a college level(grade 12+). So I've always been big on reading.

My parents claim that I started reading much earlier but, the first memory of me reading was in 1st grade. At that grade I kinda skipped over picture books and started reading "chapter books" made for younger readers. I don't actualy remeber learning how to read, I think I just picked it up, especially since my parents read to me every night. I can read and absorb a book really quickly. However, everytime I read outloud I sound like a second grader. Does this happen to anyone else?

i was reading between the ages of 2-3...i remember my mom telling me that my kindergarten teacher thought i had an older sibiling who was reading the same books to me over and over again and she had thought i had memorized the words rather than grasp and understand the words.....she then pulled out a local newspaper and i read the stories that she would point to...my mom loved to tell that story to me when i was younger.....then in high school i discovered pot and it was all downhill from there... :D

I was an avid reader from the age of two months.

I was an avid reader from the age of two months.

wow...at 2 months i think i was trying to keep my body from looking like i was addicted to crack every waking moment.... :D

wow...at 2 months i think i was trying to keep my body from looking like i was addicted to crack every waking moment.... :D

Tough one man, sorry to hear that.

My parents claim that I started reading much earlier but, the first memory of me reading was in 1st grade. At that grade I kinda skipped over picture books and started reading "chapter books" made for younger readers. I don't actualy remeber learning how to read, I think I just picked it up, especially since my parents read to me every night. I can read and absorb a book really quickly. However, everytime I read outloud I sound like a second grader. Does this happen to anyone else?

yeah, in first grade i was advanced enough a reader that i went into a fourth grade class and helped them. anytime i had to read a whole sentence aloud, i sound retarded. i do the same thing at work, whenever i attempt to tell someone something like "your change is $1.23" i always accidently say $1.32. i have tons of books in my room that i am always reading, and i still cant type out a corhent paragraph (as you can tell.) so your not the only one, of course, i dont know why it happens.

Could read some quite early, but didn't really get interested in it until i started school. But then i learnt it fast. Samething with english :)

By the age of three.
I don't really remember, but my parents love to tell the story.

My first day of school the teacher gave us the book we were to learn to read in. "Dick and Jane."
"See Dick run. See Jane run. See Spot run."
I took it home, read it, and told the teacher the next day that it was a stupid book.



EDIT: As you can see, my attitude problem started early. :D

C:dos C:dos:run Run:dos:run :)

I was 2-3, I remember starting primary school, and after a couple of days the teacher letting me go and get the junior books to read because the books in the reception book box were too short for me.

Unless you have an unprecedented I.Q, I dont believe a two year old child has the mental development to grasp written language, beyond recognizing familiar shapes.
At any rate, no such child could teach himself this skill.


shows what u know my best friends 2 year old sister can read do u even know ne 2 year olds or have kids and just because u were an stupid baby dosent mean the rest of us were

Oddly enough, I don't remember. My mom says I was reading street signs, billboards, and comic books before age four. Not just "Looking at the pretty pictures" but reading them, and asking questions about what the longer words meant. I don't recall.
I was reading before I hit Kindergarten, though. (the only time in my life when being smarter was more popular than being better-looking or stronger among my peers.)
and books-without-pictures before first grade.

Wow that is almost the same as me cept my "mom" is actually "mum"... ;)

wht r uj cayin eh cght riesd. :(
I dont know!
I know i could read at age 5 but i only have 3 memories from before i was 8
-Traumatic childhood?..............

poll was closed but, I learned around 2 I think. I know I've been drawing since I was 2.

I was one of the only kids in kindergarten that could read and do math. They sent me to 1st grade classes when my kindergarten was just learning to read and add and subtract (not to mention count).