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Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.
In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Learning To Read In The Weirdest Way
Posted 12-11-2010 at 04:23 AM by case44
Getting out of bed this morning, I had one of those flashback moments. It was spent recalling how I learned to read as a little tyke, and as I recall, it's one of the durndest things that you probably wouldn't believe.
Way back when, I remember my mother telling me that I could read on sixth-grade level as a first-grader. But, even before that, there may be a reason as to why that came about. As a 2-year-old, the TV set was right in front of me, and I still can recall images, one after the other, commencing on the screen. Those images were those of movie stars (two of them being Marilyn Monroe and John Wayne). The next thing was a dissolve into some dots forming letters of a particular TV program that was coming on at the time.
And the program? THE ABC SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE.
That's what those letters were spelling. I could read them at age two!!
Before we could do things like say the alphabet or learn to spell and write, I spent time reading the name of a TV series that became a staple of ABC's prime time lineup for years. Then came some other shows, "Dragnet", "Bewitched", "The CBS Thursday Night Movie", and "The Name Of The Game", all on different networks and different nights, with me performing the same act. My little brain got a workout, didnit?
Funny how all this works for one person. And we thought television was supposed to do harm (and believe me, it can), but in the sense I just spoke of a moment ago, it actually did me some good in the long run.
Way back when, I remember my mother telling me that I could read on sixth-grade level as a first-grader. But, even before that, there may be a reason as to why that came about. As a 2-year-old, the TV set was right in front of me, and I still can recall images, one after the other, commencing on the screen. Those images were those of movie stars (two of them being Marilyn Monroe and John Wayne). The next thing was a dissolve into some dots forming letters of a particular TV program that was coming on at the time.
And the program? THE ABC SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE.
That's what those letters were spelling. I could read them at age two!!
Before we could do things like say the alphabet or learn to spell and write, I spent time reading the name of a TV series that became a staple of ABC's prime time lineup for years. Then came some other shows, "Dragnet", "Bewitched", "The CBS Thursday Night Movie", and "The Name Of The Game", all on different networks and different nights, with me performing the same act. My little brain got a workout, didnit?Funny how all this works for one person. And we thought television was supposed to do harm (and believe me, it can), but in the sense I just spoke of a moment ago, it actually did me some good in the long run.
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What a funny story about learning to read. Different people have different situations, and yours is one I don't hear about too often. That's incredible.Posted 12-30-2010 at 01:59 PM by malfunction
