A while ago, Deb at Booking Through Thursday interviewed her readers for a change, and her final question was, “What question have I NOT asked at BTT that you’d love me to ask?”
This morning’s BTT question is the question I asked:
Who taught you to read?
I asked this because I don’t remember who taught me to read and I wondered if anyone else does actually remember being taught.
I just can’t remember a time when I couldn’t talk, walk or read. I know that I could read before I went to school and that I loved being read to and being told stories. It was my dad who read to me at night before I went to sleep and he was the one who made up silly, funny stories to keep me and my sister entertained. So maybe it was him who taught me to read.
But it could have be my mum who taught me because she was the one who took me to the library with her. The library was a small branch library with children’s and adults’ books in the same room and I could choose my own books whilst she chose hers and she could keep an eye on me at the same time. She was the one who always had her head in a book when she wasn’t busy doing anything else.
I wish I could remember. All I do remember is loving books and it seems as though I learnt to read by looking and listening rather than being taught. But it can’t have been that simple – can it?