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> On another forum, someone asked, what was the first book you ever read?
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> Mine was Doctor Dolittle, when I was about 9 or 10. A late starter, I know.
>
I can't remember the first one, but I did like all those scientific and
thecnical books.
I do remember going through a BIG dictionary, reading pages after pages
(about 10 inches thick that used sone springs to hold the pages...),
reading a large book about astronomy, assimilating plans books for some
airplanes, like the CF105 when it was relatively new into service,...
Alain
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On 5/29/2011 5:57, Stephen wrote:
> On another forum, someone asked, what was the first book you ever read?
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> Mine was Doctor Dolittle, when I was about 9 or 10. A late starter, I know.
Mine was "the night before christmas". (You know, the one with saint nick
coming down the chimney, eight reindeer on the roof, all that.) I vividly
remember just suddenly being able to read it, kneeling next to the bed with
a pile of stuff on the bed and looking at the book, and suddenly it made sense.
Apparently, what few people ever teach children but which accounts for the
biggest stumbling block (at least that I've read) is that the words are
separated by spaces. Too obvious to actually tell a kid that, I guess, and
jumping from reading individual words to full sentences needs that insight.
I'm not sure how accurate that research was, but it was an interesting thought.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Coding without comments is like
driving without turn signals."
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On 5/29/2011 13:26, Jim Henderson wrote:
> Hard to say, I remember a book about whales that I read to my mom when I
> was 5 or 6, but I also know I was reading Asimov at 6 or 7 (I was granted
> special access to the 'big kids' section of the school library).
I don't remember what the first "real" book I read was. I had finished the
non-fiction section at school by fifth grade when we were assigned to read a
fiction book. So I read "Lost, A Moon" (or some such name), about this
family getting kidnapped by Phobos (yes, the martian moon Phobos).
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Coding without comments is like
driving without turn signals."
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On 06/06/2011 04:15 PM, Darren New wrote:
> Apparently, what few people ever teach children but which accounts for
> the biggest stumbling block (at least that I've read) is that the words
> are separated by spaces. Too obvious to actually tell a kid that, I
> guess, and jumping from reading individual words to full sentences needs
> that insight. I'm not sure how accurate that research was, but it was an
> interesting thought.
Interesting. I was the worst reader in my class for over a decade, yet I
never had any trouble with that.
(The trouble *I* had was that the English language does not have any
consistent mathematical structure. It's just random. There is no
algorithm to compute the correct spelling for an arbitrary word. The
only way to read and write is to simply *memorise* the spelling of EVERY
WORD IN THE ENTIRE LANGUAGE. This is both extremely difficult and
/highly/ exasperating.)
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