When I was in infant school they taught us to read. The phonetic method was used (I see in hindsight), so âcanâ is âcâ for cat, âaâ for apple, and ânâ for night, and there you have it. It doesnât work very well, but itâs a good start.
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There we were, two dozen or so, and we are reading Janet and John out loud. âL-o-o-k J-a-n-e-t s-a-y-s J-o-h-nâ. It doesnât totally work but if you listen to yourself, you can work out most words. The story helps a lot of course.Â
Our teacher offered a gold star to the first person in the class who could read silently. Iâm not a gold star person personally, and I was bored by it all. So to pass the time I stopped speaking and just pretended to be reading.
Wow big mistake! Up comes Teacher who says âOh look class, Richard can read silentlyâ. On the spot or what? From that time I couldnât read out loud without being exposed as a fraud, and I more or less instantly found out Iâd been able to read silently all along.
Iâve no idea what reminded me of this.
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