Symbol-Brained

[Bekah]

You may have memorized the books as well as been learning some sight 
words.  The comprehension may have been there to retell stories.  But 
accurately sounding out a new word,  like cart,  and putting it into 
comprehensible context is not going to happen until the child is 3 at 
the earliest and sometimes never happens.

Bekah



At 9:32 AM -0700 8/12/05, Dave Monroe wrote:
>Well--and to a certain extent I can remember this, I
>have certain memories I can reliably date (e.g., the
>moon landing, my 2nd Christmas, et al.)--my mom told
>me I just started reading from a Dr. Seuss book (can't
>recall which off hand, but ...) somewhere in my 2nd
>year.  Sure, MAYBE I memorized it having had it read
>to me, but ... but I also received a globe for my 2nd
>Christmas which I repotedly referred to as a "two
>world."  I've always been cartographically inclined.
>I've always been calligraphically inclined, in fact.
>I had to relearn cursive writing the Catholic nun way
>when I got to grade school at age four (I have a late
>birthday, so ...), though now my hands are so shot
>I've become the most illegible bachelor in town ((c)
>Billy Bragg, and my typing is obviously not so hot,
>either).  This is not to claim to be a prodigy of any
>sort (I've long since dispelled any illusions my
>parents [R.I.P.] might have had about that, and
>there's plenty of "nornmal" things I STILL haven't
>caught on to, like, say, operating venetian blinds;
>I'm not so strong a shoe tier, either), but, well, a
>counterexample ...
>
>--- Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>  I know that kids under the age of 3 can't understand
>>  that the letter on the page is a symbol for the
>>  sound of "Mm" for instance.  Or that the numeral 7
>>  represents that quantity.  But at the age of 3 or 4
>>  they get that.
>
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