#Learning to Read

[scretladyspider]

We’re all going to have to start being a lot more compassionate and a lot less ableist towards reading if we’re going to actually address the growing problem of kids in school who weren’t really taught to read. Lotta people talk about how there’s no literacy anymore as if it’s the kids’ fault. It’s not. And we need to start addressing it from a place of kindness, not ridicule.

[intothestacks]

Adventures in Librarian-ing

One of the Grade 1s picked up a Bluey book to try to read and the poor kid looked at the very first word (mum) and was like "What does THAT mean????" so I had to explain that the word was "mom" but spelled with a U because in Australia they say the word differently than in Canada.

[draconicdependency]

HAAII erhghmm uhmm if anyone hasss any like tipsss on how to teach sssomeone to read ... we DESSSPERATELY need it ty ty ty

yeah uhmm. ananasss can't read. like at all. anytime he "typesss" it'sss ssssomeone elssse transsscribing . i don't even know if he knowsss what sssound lettersss make. uh yeah help isss much appreciated 😭 /nf

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[pixierainbows]

[markonpark]

Fundamental. Mounted photo of a pretty little girl sitting in a rattan chair reading a picture book. Moore studio, Rutland, Vt. https://markonpark.etsy.com/listing/1496344947

[bucketofdeltav]

I fundamentally agree with you but I wish to share a different angle on that fundamental agreement.

I am also the autism, and raised by an English Lit teacher (and an engineer whose draft reports were the household scrap paper bin, so I had good examples of both literary and technical writing available from very young).

No I don't know exactly what a character's face is doing when the author says 'their eyes darkened'. I also don't, like, care, if I'm reading for pleasure. Like I recognize the emotional state that's being conveyed by the phrase, which is the core information that actually matters here, and when I'm reading I don't have to interpret human facial expressions in real time to get that information, because it's like. Right there. What is this character feeling right now. For bonus points, how does this affect what they're going to do or say next?

I've been told it's really easy to see when I'm reading Star Wars stories specifically (and sometimes which one I'm reading) because I 'try on' the characters' faces with my own face wayyyy more than with other genres, and that's because the canon novelizations go really hard on facial expressions (and Force aura which is fundamentally just a different kind of facial expression and one real people don't actually have, except when they do) because they're very explicitly referring back to film media, where facial expression is a major way of conveying a lot of emotional information at once. I really like the RotS novelization because it's very clearly timestampable to a specific film and I can go check 'what that figure of speech looks like on a human face'.

Hello yes I learned to read human emotion largely from Star Wars this explains a lot about me actually.

I can't remember where I was going with this. Wide range of human experience good. Understanding that not everyone is going to approach your writing in the same way also good.

I’m so sorry but in the nicest way possible do yall actually read books or just read words??? Cause I’ve been seeing that trend of people not understanding how “snarled” and “eyes darkened” and “eyes softened” etc. was used in a book and like…

Genuinely, do yall just not have imagination?? Or not understand figurative language??? Also eyes do literally darken and soften have you not lived a life??? How do you read with no imagination? Is this how you get through so many books in one month - you simply don’t take the time the understand the words as they are read?

[catmask]

i dont consider myself a 'fashion guru' by any means but one thing i will say is guys you dont need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called. very rarely does a brand matter, but knowing that pair of pants is called 'cargo' vs 'boot cut' or the names of dress styles is going to help you find clothes you like WAAAYYYY faster than brand shopping

[inkskinned]

i love you vaccines i love you research i love you reading the book instead of having chatgpt summarize it i love you critically thinking rather than reacting to a headline i love you investigating the source material i love you science i love you math even though you are personally my enemy (math/yn slowburn) i love you writing even though you try to stab me a lot i love you Experts in Your Field i love you Using The Brain

[cupcakebazooka]

A piece of wisdom that has really helped me is that it is better to do something imperfectly rather than not at all.

My son is supposed to read for 20 mins every night. He struggles to make it to that time limit when he is reading, so I let him start by reading out loud to me for as long as he likes and then I will read to him the rest of the time.

It’s not perfect, but he’s reading. He’s working on his endurance for doing difficult things. He happily sits and listens to the entire 20 mins of me reading to him. He’s learning from the stories. He’s learning from me reading aloud to him. He’s learning that the voice goes down at the end of a sentence and up when it ends with a question mark. He’s learning that listening to someone else read aloud IS reading. He’s learning how a farm works, what a pig’s life is like, and how a spider spins her web. He’s learning all sorts of new vocabulary and ways of speaking from an author of a different time period than him. He is learning that I love to help him through things he struggles with. He is learning that I love to spend time with him. He is learning that he is not annoying or lazy. He is learning that imperfection is acceptable and he is learning that what matters is progress, not speed. He is learning that I like sharing stories with him.

So no, he didn’t visually identify words for the whole 20 minutes, which is important to learn, but he did read.

I think he’s learning something just as important as being able to visually identify words. He’s learning that there is more than one way to read.

[lemecquirit]

I've only been a constant reader for just over a year, so I can't confidently tell what's 'transgressive' and what's 'exploitative'. Can exploitation ever be fun and harmless? Do I always have to care? Excited to find out...

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[jetskkiii]

He is learning to read 📚

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

" #ChattanoogaPublicLibrary’s new #adultliteracy collection

A special collection for any adult learner looking to improve their #literacy skills". Those interested in helping to tutor or read with other adults can also apply to volunteer at

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

[carlyraejepsans]

"speak for yourself" make your own post❤️

[incognito-princess]

Because the beginning of 3rd grade is the end of 'learning how to read' we still do phonics warm up. One of the things we do is 'phonemic transformations'. It looks like this-

pla ab plab

(the first is an open syllable w/ a long vowel, the next two are closed with a short vowel. These are predictable segments of words in English and the rules are reliable in >85% of English words.) Each day we do 5 rows- one for each true vowel.

Anyway, today my class realized that if we mix them up randomly, it sounds like we're speaking an alien language. So if you need to make-up a language, there's a rule you can use. Honestly, a lot of the time, it sounds like Dr. Seuss words!