[Jamestown1630]

Try as I will, I can’t even remember how I learned to read. I’m sure the teachers had a system at the time, but I’d have to find out what it was and learn it before I could teach children as effectively as I was taught. It just seems to have happened by some sort of intellectual ‘osmosis’.

[philman_36]

Try as I will, I can’t even remember how I learned to read.

I realized I could read from watching a commercial.
Do you remember the old Gulf gas commercials and the logo?

Once I made the connection from the ending script that the letters spelled a word I was off to the races.
It's still a vivid memory for me from childhood.

[philman_36]

BTW, that was pre-kindergarten. I just needed to hear the word linked to the letter grouping.
But that was just me.

[Repeal The 17th]

[Overtaxed]

Every morning we’d go through flashcards with the letters and then repeat their sounds after the teacher. Then the letters would be put together into words, and we would sound it out.