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How Alex Learned to Read Part Four

by Cheryl Carroll
2005

How Alex Learned to Read - Part Four: Age 8

Alex once again got interested in computer games. One game he really liked was Runescape. He was always calling me to read the screen. Sometimes this required quite a bit of reading. When I was not available to read it when he needed, he would spell out the words for me.

After the first few days, I noticed he had stopped asking for my help. I thought he was getting familiar with the game and skipping parts he knew he didn't need to read. I was wrong. As I watched him play one day, he read everything he needed to read all by himself! I had problems pronouncing some of the character's names myself and here he was doing a marvelous job of sounding them out.

So that was it. One day he was spelling the words out to me and the next day he wasn't. One day he could only read simple or familiar words and the next day he was reading words ten characters long.

Not long after this, we were out eating when he said a word I didn't understand and asked me if I knew what it was. I didn't. He said another and another and I finally caught on. He was pronouncing words backwards. It started because he was reading signs that were facing outside and by two days later had blossomed into saying whole backwards sentences and talking in our own code! "I ma ruoy dneirf" was his most used sentence.

I found this incredible because it's hard to say a word like "sandwich" backward, but he figured out an accurate way of doing it, so that I had a fair opportunity to guess the word. We played this game for months.

Alex is now a very good reader. Although I have told many people that when he was grown, no one would care at what age he learned to read, I hope I was mistaken. I hope the age at which he started reading (eight and about ten months) will somehow be of help to others. Whether you're going the same route as us, thinking about it, or you're just trying to understand it, I hope our story will help you to trust it will all turn out okay.

Thanks for reading!

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