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Learning to Read
My earliest recollection of learning to read comes from watching television. As a young child, my parents thought it was best to leave me and my siblings in front of the television in order to serve as a babysitter. From these experiences is where I believe I taught myself to read.
Seasme Street and The Electric Company, two shows broadcasted on public television throughout the day served as a daily interjections of reading lessons that were most likely designed for that purpose. I can also recollect other educational television programs such as Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood and The Great Space Coaster as other sources of reading knowledge.
These experiences sitting in front of the television merely served as an impetus to my learning. To me, reading feels like a skill that needs to be practiced, and this skill can be honed or entropy depending on the frequency of use. In some ways, as a young person learning to read, I was actually better at the skill than I have been at other times of my life. This is due in large part to the imagination and its role it plays in reading.
I have a general positive attitude about my reading development skills and feel that they still can improve however. Learning to read is an ongoing process that does not stop once somebody has mastered an alphabet and can put a few sentences together. The more I read and appear to learn the more my ignorance appears. I am constantly learning new words, phrases and dialects as I investigate new texts.
If there is any draw backs to the increased mastering of the reading skill, it is the fact that the learning will in fact never stop. Every new book may answer several questions, but if properly organized, will induce several more. This never ending cycle of reading and learning can put a person in a state of shock and awe if not tempered with a practical application of what is being fed into the mind.
The best part about reading and learning to read, is the coordination between that skill and the more mysterious aspects about the imagination. Unlike other cognitive resources, the imagination has no limitations apparently. By taking the stance of the eternal student, reading and learning can be used as useful methods to help navigate a complicated and complex world.
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