Learning to read (links)

Links for a question from Sunday:


Learning without Reading (advantages of later reading)
http://sandradodd.com/r/hollydodd

Account of four children learning to read, one not until teens (the preemie-of-twins story I told):
http://sandradodd.com/r/carol
That boy grew up to be a Marine, and is back from Afghanistan. When he was a teen, he could ride a bicycle up the back side of the Sandias. He's very athletic.

The Deepest, Best Reason for Learning to Read Themselves
The Deeper Effect of a Child Learning to Read: Confidence
http://sandradodd.com/r/deeper

The Nature of Real Reading
http://sandradodd.com/r/real

Those have other links at the bottom, and the accounts of my own children learning to read are in a couple of places, one from 2002:
http://sandradodd.com/r/sandra
(I guess it WAS Are you there, God? It's me, Margaret because there's a photo of it there. :-) )
and from 2005
http://sandradodd.com/r/threereaders