Possibly A Reason Why I Am An Above Average Reader?

[inksplotter]

I had a book about reading phoenetically at home-the Easy Reader series. Was anyone else helped by these?

[DrFilth]

pp you are the man

you da boss you can tell just by looking at a guy what he reads

[Mamyalynne]

Don't encourage him DrF ;-)

[jomifl]

50% of the population are above average readers, it ain't so special :o)

[jno]

it was 11 posts in before someone actually answered the question. This ain't Chatterbank.

[Baldric]

PP, I think most of the replies are in reference the OP's superiority complex about his reading ability, even if his post @ 14:03 betrays his writing ability to be in a different league altogether.
If the criticism had been made by someone with the ability to string the English Language together in a written form that actually made sense I may have taken it more seriously!

[hc4361]

I dislike your use of the hyphen as punctuation, inksplotter.

[Peter Pedant]

No Mama - or even yes mama
there was research done on this...

so it should be yes, the research showed......,
or
no the research showed....

and this is what we call a discussion.

If the easy readers used the ITA - and we could discuss even that - then they couldnt show an effect.

I recollect the parents being very much in favour of the ITA,
and so we could discuss whether a perceived effect is in fact an effect or not ( this comes up again in mammography - the consumers think it is much better than it is )

but instead we have had a lot about whether the pub goers in various areas quote chakespeare....

[Mamyalynne]

Aye.


Sigh.

[Peter Pedant]

hc - Mark Twain never punctuated apparently.

He made a list of the marks and a note to the editor -" to sprinkle to taste"

[royfromaus]

but instead we have had a lot about whether the pub goers in various areas quote chakespeare....



Who is to blame for that PP?



inksplotter
Question Author
"Someone who does have not trouble reading"-someone who reads more than the bloke in the pub, for instance.
14:03 Mon 16th Jun 2014

[kvalidir]

I wasn't helped by 'easy reader' because I wasn't taught using that method.
I read about a dozen books a week so on your assumptions I should be a genius but I'm pretty sure that there are a good few higher calibre readers out there than me- by the thousands, and some of them read in the pub. It's not how many books you read that counts, or even actually what those books are, it's the effect they have on you and the way they stretch and alter your thought processes that count. Read one book per year and utilise ervything it h to offer and you might

[kvalidir]

well that sucked posted half way through! :(

Read one book a year and utilise everything it has to offer and you will be far better off than an avid reader who doesn't do that.

[China Doll]

Mg paternal grandfather had the nickname of 'the professor' in his local in ireland, apparently a very intelligent and well read fellow; also a raving drunk who got run over by a bus or a guiness truck depending on which version of he story you believe.

I was taught to spell phonetically and mh spelling is dreadful - my degree is in English Literature. I don't there is a ond size fits all approach.

Reading should be a joy (in my opinion) and not a *** measuring stick of somdones IQ.

[China Doll]

My spelling is also terrible when typing quickly on my tab it appears ;-)

[DrFilth]

i never spotted any mustakes

[EDDIE51]

My Mum was a school teacher she taught me to read before I even started school . Once the teachers at my school found I could read they virtually ignored me, so I just started reading everything I could get my hands on.
I read every book in the school library and then joined the public library and read all the books in the children's section. I owe my education to a librarian who realised how much I was reading and told me that I was able to use the adult library .

[Peter Pedant]

Yes Ed we remember gratefully the teachers who pulled us out of the main stream....

[smoneybags]

I was a Primary school teacher for over 25 years and I was always glad when children came to school being able to read because it gave me more time to spend on the less able children. My own daughter was able to read before she started school, although this was not down to me as she taught herself. When she took a Young's reading test at age 7 her ability was graded as being above the reading age for a twelve year old, (twelve years was the highest reading age that could be determined by that particular test). Also 'above average' is a rather meaningless phrase in this context, as we don't know whether it refers to the number of books read, or the understanding that the poster has of what he's read. He should just be glad that he successfully learnt to read by whichever method was used!