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When did you first learn to read?

I was reading thick children's books when I was about five. I thought that was really advanced until I read the other posters here. :)

By the way, the books I read were about a rabbit detective, I think, and all his animal friends. Does anybody know what these might be? This was back in about 1962, so they're pretty old.
 
I learned before I went to school. I loved it, and I enjoyed spelling. In 5th grade I worked ahead in my spelling workbook so I already had the assignments done before they were assigned :lol:
 
Probably around age 3is. I went to Montessori school for a couple of years pre-K and for Kindergarten, and the very earliest thing I remember was doing the reading and writing work. By the time I hit public school in the first grade, I was reading at an 8th grade level, which was actually a big problem for them and resulted in me leaving public school almost immediately. :lol:

A big contributor to that, aside from the Montessori education, was probably the fact that my parents bought me a massive 100-book collection of nice, hard-bound classic literature (Little Women, Alice in Wonderland, Mark Twain, Dickens and the like) when I was 5 which I plowed through rather voraciously. After that, I moved right into the modern classics-Stephen King, Dean R. Koontz, Douglas Adams, Frank Herbert and whatever else was on my dad's bookshelf... :vulcan:
 
I suppose I started a little later than you guys. When I started First Grade at age six, I knew the alphabet and my name, and that was about it. However, my Mom--and sometimes my Dad--regularly read to me and my sisters before we went to sleep, so I loved storybooks before I could read them. I even "wrote" a few by drawing pictures of what happened to the characters. I got the idea from the wordless Mercer Meyer books about a boy, a dog, and a frog.

I started really learning to read in public school, but my parents constantly coached me on it at home. By the time I was eight I was reading and loving novels for teenagers.
 
Not until I was 6. I was lucky to be enrolled at a school at all, to be frank. Where I grew up, there were no laws about children and school.

Once I moved country, and was furnished with a library card at the age of 8, I fell in love with books and learning for myself. If it wasn't for that early love, I probably wouldn't have left school with any GCSE's to speak of, as the teaching standards were abysmal.
 
The earliest science fiction book I can recall reading was The Forgotten Door, which I found in my 3rd grade classroom.
 
Lindley said:
The earliest science fiction book I can recall reading was The Forgotten Door, which I found in my 3rd grade classroom.
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I remember when I was 5 I went on holiday to Sri Lanka, and I used to read a lot of English language children's books, some of the stories being written by local resident Arthur C. Clarke. I even remember at the time wanting to meet him while I was there, but being disappointed that I didn't. Actually, come to think of it, I don't really remember much of that holiday, and maybe I did meet him and I'd forgotten all about it. I must remember to ask my parents about it at the next opportinuty. :lol:
 
The first novel sized book I read was The Indian in The Cupboard - Lynn Reid Banks. I kept it (I thought it was the most wonderful thing put to paper), and gave it to my young brother only a few months ago, he was 7 then. He didn't seem to like it as much! :lol: Then again, he's been reading novels for years now, I guess the wow factor of your first can't be duplicated.
 
I was 2 1/2 when I started reading, and I don't remember at all not knowing how to read. It came very easily...writing was another question, though--my coordination was terrible and to this day my printing still looks like crap. My cursive is better, but reading it seems to have become a dying art in modern culture.

BTW, Man Afraid of His Shoes, I believe The Black Cauldron is still being published and read. The entire Prydain Chronicles series has kind of become a classic.
 
I honestly can't recall when I first started reading. I know it was before I started school, but that's about all I can recall of it.

We were all sort of surprise when my son (at 3) just picked up a book and started reading some of the simpler words in it; considering we hadn't started working with him yet in regards to reading and writing, just alphabet recognition.
 
Zion Ravescene said:
My mum has often told me that I started reading things when I was 2. I think much of my reading skills came from watching TV and from our Speak & Spell, which for me at the time was absolutely the best toy ever made, ever. :bolian: Myself, I was never a good reader, and I remember struggling a lot throughout school. It wasn't really until my last 2 years of school and also when I hit University that I was able to really enjoy reading the books that were there. I personally put that down to having two excellent English teachers at the time.

I think my very first book was "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", a book which I'm sure everyone has read by now, and which has had a major impact on my life. Sadly, my ascendancy to Butterfly status has yet to materialise. :(
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Jim Steele said:
LAST WEEK AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

No but seriously, I think I learned to read pretty early (definitely if I was anything like my daughter when I was her age), but I don't remember getting into "proper" books (ie not graphic novels) until much much later than everyone else, I think the first time I finished a novel I was 15. God that's embarrassing to admit. It was a Red Dwarf book as well, "Last Human" if I remember rightly.

Another horrible thing to admit is that reading can often make my eyes sore and give me headaches so I don't do anywhere near as much of it as any of you do. Audiobooks are my savior.
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Mix these two answers and that's me.
My mam used to read to me all the time when I was young, but my grandad wasn't a good reader due to (he believed) being educated at a Catholic school, so he always tried his best to teach me to read.
I was never a very good reader at primary school, and it wasn't until I was around 13-14 when I was off school sick, and spotted a Red Dwarf book (which I read in 4 or 5 hours) that I got in to reading for fun. Even after that I had a hard time with a lot of books, but I started to buy and read more for fun, rather than just school work.
Now I have hundreds of books, can sometimes get through 3-5 books a week, other times out of no where I get bogged down and can't get anywhere with a book for weeks/months at a time.
 
Bob The Skutter said:
Zion Ravescene said:
My mum has often told me that I started reading things when I was 2. I think much of my reading skills came from watching TV and from our Speak & Spell, which for me at the time was absolutely the best toy ever made, ever. :bolian: Myself, I was never a good reader, and I remember struggling a lot throughout school. It wasn't really until my last 2 years of school and also when I hit University that I was able to really enjoy reading the books that were there. I personally put that down to having two excellent English teachers at the time.

I think my very first book was "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", a book which I'm sure everyone has read by now, and which has had a major impact on my life. Sadly, my ascendancy to Butterfly status has yet to materialise. :(
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Jim Steele said:
LAST WEEK AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

No but seriously, I think I learned to read pretty early (definitely if I was anything like my daughter when I was her age), but I don't remember getting into "proper" books (ie not graphic novels) until much much later than everyone else, I think the first time I finished a novel I was 15. God that's embarrassing to admit. It was a Red Dwarf book as well, "Last Human" if I remember rightly.

Another horrible thing to admit is that reading can often make my eyes sore and give me headaches so I don't do anywhere near as much of it as any of you do. Audiobooks are my savior.
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Mix these two answers and that's me.
My mam used to read to me all the time when I was young, but my grandad wasn't a good reader due to (he believed) being educated at a Catholic school, so he always tried his best to teach me to read.
I was never a very good reader at primary school, and it wasn't until I was around 13-14 when I was off school sick, and spotted a Red Dwarf book (which I read in 4 or 5 hours) that I got in to reading for fun. Even after that I had a hard time with a lot of books, but I started to buy and read more for fun, rather than just school work.
Now I have hundreds of books, can sometimes get through 3-5 books a week, other times out of no where I get bogged down and can't get anywhere with a book for weeks/months at a time.
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Funny, I didn't read my first Red Dwarf novel until I was 19, going on 20. ;)
 
It was certainly before I went to School. All of my family are heavy readers, so it was only natural that I'd start reading early:)
 
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