At what age did you discover that reading was something so amazing?
At what age did you discover that reading was something so amazing??
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At what age did you discover that reading was something so amazing??
7
Likely in the crib!
Lol
About 5
Honest answer is in a remedial reading class my freshman year of college university.
I don’t ever remember a time that I didn’t think that so I don’t really know.
For me it was age 15, as a little girl my dad would read to me but I hated reading myself because I’m dyslexic and it takes me much longer to read. But I love stories so that’s why I read
do you like audio?
@Nettie while I’m doing house work yes.
Five
4
4 years old!
About 9 when I was able to read
12 yrz real the story the gambler
I loved reading my whole life. But what made me realize that books could open up whole new worlds was Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire. I was about 11 years old when I found the movie and the book. And that book change reading for me forever.
About 25… I’m an English teacher and felt like a hypocrite assigning novels and requiring my teenage students to read when I hadn’t cracked a book “for pleasure” just about ever…. I found my genre. And my passion. And now I compete with my student to see who can read the most, recommend the best, find the coolest new…. ect ect
I’m gonna say at about thirteen. It happened about the same time I realized I would never be able to hit a curve ball.
It was when i was 18
8. Little House in the Big Woods.
Before I could walk.
When I was four. I picked up one of my little books and taught myself to read. This was long before Sesame Street (I’m 75) so my mom must have taught me the alphabet.
I was a late bloomer. I’d say 20
3
about 6..
I don’t remember a time it wasn’t, I was read to as a child and it has never stopped
13 ???
3
Same here
Fourth grade.
First.
I was obsessed with books before I could read, so 2 or so?
My grandmother was a librarian so she had a reading list as soon as I came from the womb. Addicted ever since
My grandmother sent me a huge box of Nancy Drew books for my 10th birthday, and I discovered I could read one in a day. I love starting on a new series!
About 13. I have dyslexia but my school didn’t try to figure that out and just sent me to special education during reading time. I was teased so much for it which led to me even disliking reading more. Finally my mom got a private tutor who helped us realize the issue and help me but due to the stigma and teasing, it took me many more years to get into reading at all. When in 8th grade, we were told to pick any book for a report and I picked up Jurassic Park. It was complex, it took me forever to read, and I loved every moment of it. And I never stopped reading afterwards. Just this weekend, while at my mom’s, mom looked at me and said “I would have never guessed that my child who hated reading with a passion would grow up to be a 32 year old woman who can’t get her nose out of a book. I’m so proud.” <3
3rd grade I discovered Trixie Beldon books. 59 cents each and I had to save to get that much. Lol
Before I even knew how to read. I was always asking my mom when I could go to school so I could learn to read.
Before I learned how to read. Had to bother my father to read to me all the time)
6 when I started reading the comics in the newspaper
From the first baby book my mom put in my hands…
Before I could read when someone would read to me
6
5 or 6 I think??
Infancy
I started when I was young. Then I hated it and then I read all of John Green’s books then quit again and started reading full-time again once I started the divergent series
5 or 6 I guess
6
My mother used to read me every night when I was young, she continued for several years even when I learned to read and write.
About 4th grade. The library was a sanctuary for me when I was little. It was a small town library in an old victorian house with creaky wood floors. It smelled soooo good. <3
age 7 with Nancy Drew books. That summer, my neighbor who is a teacher, lent me one book at a time from the series and to get the next I had to write a short book report what it was about! Great summer!
8 or 9…Bobsie Twins ND Nancy Drew.
Probably about 10. I struggled to learn to read but once it clicked it was like a whole new world opened up.
2007
24
4th grade.
I read some great books in middle school and high school. I then abandoned reading in my early adult years. Happy to report I’ve found my 1st love again! ?
7!
My Great Grampa used to buy me big books like the Disney Book of Knowledge and Ripley’s Believe it or Not, and I always had a Grampa or Uncle reading to me!
Mine read the comics to me every evening when I was an infant.
Aren’t Grampas the best? I miss mine sooo much.
41. ?
When I was 6 I’m a twin sister and when she learned to read when we were 4 I was like OMG someone to read to me for the rest of my life so never really tried. Parents took me to a reading teacher at 5 and he really showed me how amazing reading is and from than on I was reading all the time and way above my grade
At 8th grade because of my English teacher
8
6th grade, due to an amazing teacher ??❤️
About 6 or 7 when I “met” Judy Blume.
@Betsy
5
12
9
My mom read full full chapter books aloud to me when I was really little and then at age 7, I really discovered how great it was to just sit down by myself and read.
Birth
6
I’ve always enjoyed reading but didn’t become an avid reader until after college. Once school was done reading seemed much more enjoyable when it wasn’t forced upon me.
I can’t remember a time when it wasn’t amazing!
6
5
Per my Grama… 3
Haha 23…. hang my head in shame. I actually didnt like reading at all before that.
It’s never too late ?
4
About 7 months ago…. so 32.
6
4
At 4- and I was devastated when I had to do an extra year of kindy and I wasn’t going to learn reading until I went to the next year at age 7. But I caught up ?
Have no idea as I just remember always finding books fascinating and “reading” whatever I could find — Childcraft books, comics, my mom’s Japanese language books… — for as long as I can remember. I loved reading the Dick, Jane, and Sally stories in first grade, and was in heaven when I discovered the library. Reading has always been amazing to me.
10
6
The day I learned to read
Three. I read the paper to my mom. Was she ever surprised!
I was born an awkward little nerd thing.
Came out with glasses and a tiny book ?
JK but so early that I can’t remember not loving them
Age three. I read the nail to my father.
I don’t remember never not reading.
4 yrs old
About 4?
1st grade.
Very young
Age 1
1st grade.
3 or 4 though I remember my mum telling me I used to love cuddling books when I was a baby instead of a blanket like my sister’s.
That is so cute! I’ve seen kids snuggling hard plastic toys but never a book!
3
Always
9. Read my first adult novel at 10 or 11.
Age 16
10
3 or 4.
Not until 7th grade. Then I read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, follwed by, The Grapes of Wrath, and Romeo and Juliette. I was hooked for life. 50 years later, I still remember some of the exciting scenes from 20,000 Leagues. Prior to 7th grade, I was busy outside riding my horse, so I have a good excuse.
I was in my early 20s. Late bloomer. But since then I’ve been hooked and read over 100 books a year!
In primary school- I was probably seven or eight hanging out in my school library. After that it became a nightly ritual for my mum to remove the books I had brought home from school from my room, and check under my pillows and blankets for a book and or flashlight lmao.
4
Age 11 when I read The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe in one sitting.
I can’t remember not reading or listening to books.
32 years old I hope it was before, I think of all I missed out for all that time
Very young. I can always remember having a book with me where ever I went.
Too young to remember.
My son was reading at four.
About 8
17. I was a late bloomer.
12
Not until my 20’s! I missed out on all that time!!
4
First grade at Dolphin Terrace Elementary in Texas and I have my teacher at that time Mrs. Clark to thank for it.
9
13-14
Good question. Age 8.
around 6-7.
4
I have found pictures of myself reading pictures books when I was a year or two, and I think I’ve loved reading ever since. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t love reading, and I started way before I started school.
Four years old. My Dad never finished high school but he loved to read and believed in education. He joined a book of the month club for me. Every month a different Dr. Seuss book showed up at our house. When I got older I remember a lot of books my Dad gave me involving black history or children’s books with African themes.
8
Not til i was 29. And now I’m 31 and need at least a cpl books to get thru my week. But I wish I realised it sooner
2nd grade. I stayed up all night (or most of it) reading a Raggedy Ann book, The Tea Party! At almost 70, I still do it with a good book!
Too long ago,seems like I could always read. Even when little at my grandma’s I loved reading/looking at Life,Saturday Evening post,Look. I always had to be reading something.
As a toddler being read to I was automatically suspicious that I wasn’t getting the whole story written so I better learn to read ASAP.
Age 5….my parents say..they never see me without a book …
4
Same here! I stole all my brother’s ‘How to Read’ books and taught myself to read. 😀
I actually hated reading when I was younger because I had comprehension issues, I could read a word but I didn’t understand what I read if someone asked me question, so my mom made me read a book every week, then when I got into Jr High I ended up finding a romance book that was for kids and fell in love with reading after that. 🙂
5th Grade due to a required Reading Log of 25 books throughout the school year!
13
I loved reading and I remember when I was in first grade, they had the kids in three different reading groups. I was usually in the middle group because it was decided on your pronunciation, but one time I got put in the third group and just cried. It was the worse place to be. So I worked at until I was back in the middle group. And yes, nuns were terrorizing. I’m 62 years old and I was 7 when this happened.
6. I used to escape all the time!
3
6
12
Oh, like 5. Couldn’t get enough of reading.
14
When my mother read the first book to me!?
Seven or eight.
4
When I was around 6 or 7 and failing school. I didn’t realize I couldn’t see like others. I got my first pair of glasses and thought I was in heaven. Opened a book and never looked back! ???
My grandmother read to me all the time. I was probably 4 when I read along and by kindergarten my favorite place to go was the library!
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My Dad read to me ever since I can remember And that’s when I got into it.
6th grade
5
6!
Young, not sure the actual age.
Young but became an avid reader in my early twenties and have never let up and I am in my seventies.
Reading for myself? About 6 or 7. My favorite days in school was when three new Scholastic Books order catalog arrived.
4
15
7!
I was around 8 years old
My mom paid us to read big books around 7 and 8.
UNFORTUNATELY AROUND 17
I always enjoyed being read to as a child, I suppose I was about seven or eight when I became sufficiently fluent to enjoy reading books for myself and found I preferred that to being read to.
I’m pretty sure it was the first time someone read to me.
8 for fictions. For non-fictions I had to wait till 30.
I cannot remember a time when I never had a book in my hands. I had wonderful parents who took me to the library every week and kept me endlessly supplied with books. They still buy me book vouchers as gifts to this day and I am nearly 60. Thanks Mom and Dad.
I was born into a family who reads to their kids at a young age, so stories always, but I got into reading on my own at about 10
Not sure
22!
My mom read to us all the time. Their were five of us and one of my best memories was my mom reading Heidi to us one night and a Bible Story the next night. But she read a lot and read to us a lot. We also went to the library when we were old enough to walk that far. We had very little money, but I always got a book for Christmas and a book for my birthday.
So, I guess I don’t remember when reading WASN’T important to me.
About 7 or 8
12
Not find yet
Young, it seems like I’ve always read.
About 12.
I was taught to read very young, about 3 years old, and haven’t stopped since! When asking my mum why she taught me so early, her response was ‘to stop me constantly asking questions’ and to keep me occupied while she dealt with the new creature that was about to become the centre of attention (my sister!)
I was also taught very young, by my Grandmother. From then on I loved books and vaguely remember reading the gruesome bits in Red Riding Hood aloud to my parents. I must have passed the genes on since our sons were the same.
I honestly don’t remember
I don’t remember I cannot recall a time when I could not read
5
When I was 16 because I can find book resources.
5, when my father taught me to read …
11
5th grade
9
When I started reading the Harry Potter series, in 4th grade 🙂 They made me love reading.
Apparently I taught myself to read at 3 and by 7 had flashlights hidden all over my bedroom so I could read after bedtime, even if One got taken away!
6
1
Sorry, i meant first grade!
3rd grade
I can’t remember not reading. It’s like breathing to me.
Kindergarten 🙂
As a primary student, I had limited access to books so whenever I found an interesting piece of literature, I devoured them and soon realised the magnificence of reading 😉
15
2
Reading all the famous five books at about age 8 ?
Age 9
The minute the words to “One Fish Two Fish…….” had actual meaning to me. Maybe 4 yrs. old.
There’s an old home video of me wearing only a diaper, pulling books off my book shelf and making my dad read to me. So like one year old?
13 if I remember right
age three, when I started reading for myself
I was 3 or 4, going for the walks with my nanny. I would learn to read the car plates (letter by letter) and it was the most exciting thing during the day. Sooner than later I was reading headlines of my dad’s newspaper and child books.
Been hooked on it ever since.
primary school/elementary school,i remember a novel i read titled DOCTORS
I was probably about 9 years old. I started my love of reading with Little House In The Big Woods series♡♡♡
My parents, especially my dad, read to me all the time. So, I would have to say around 3 or 4.
8 years ?
10
Around 3 or 4. I grew up with an aunt and uncle who were both avid readers and they both read to me. They were 10 yrs my senior.
About 5 years old. I never put books down as a kid.
Around six. That’s when I learned to read in school.
From the womb! My mom has always read to me ?