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At What Age Did You Begin Reading?



At What Age Did You Begin Reading?

Three
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33%
Four
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31%
Five
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12%
Six
22
6%
Seven
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2%
Eight
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3%
Other
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12%
 
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Thu Sep 18, 2014 11:53 pm
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ThereseCricket says...



I started reading around five I THINK. It might have been six. I was slow to learn, but once I did! xD My mother never saw me again... I was always gone, in the corner, reading whatever I could find. lol
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Tue Jan 06, 2015 3:49 am
Pretzelstick says...



Of course we all jere are so smart and most of us began to read at the age of three right? Well when I was three I learned to read in Polish and then at the age of six I learned how to read in Englis.. So ha I am biliterarive whixh means I read two different languages!
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Sat Jan 31, 2015 1:58 am
WritingWolf says...



My parents always read to me (I don't mean little kids books, I mean chapter books, probably what you'd expect 8-10 year-olds to read) when I was little so it is kind of hard to remember when I started to read.
Me and my sisters where all late reading (yay homeschooling). I probably first started at like 5, but I didn't really get into learning to read until like 7 or 8. I couldn't read on my own until I was 9. I was very resistant to learning to read. My parents weren't worried because they knew I loved stories and eventually I would be self-motivated enough to learn.

When I was learning to read we used this series called Bob Books which was designed for learning to read. I loved Bob Books, but I can't remember who they are by.
Once I could actually read I didn't spend any time in little books with very few pages like you expect from new readers, I just jumped into small chapter books. That was probably due to the fact that I didn't read until so late (well, late compared to all the other kids I knew, I don't know when people normally start reading). The first book I read on my own was a Magic Kitten book (by Sue Bentley), I'm not entirely sure which one, it could have been Circus Wish or A Summer Spell. I can't remember.
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TheCardsHaveNoMemory says...



I started reading at four. I was Homeschooled, and my mom was teaching me how to, and halfway through it I just picked up this advanced book and read it all the way through and my mom said that she had done her job, LOL. :o :smt003
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Sat Mar 07, 2015 4:11 pm
TheWorldIsMyLife says...



I actually started reading when I'd just turned two.. :3
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Fri May 22, 2015 11:19 am
Harker says...



The first book I ever read fully by myself (I was four) was the Absent Author, in the A-Z Mysteries series.
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Sat Jun 06, 2015 9:00 pm
raevynstar says...



I was two, according to my family. I know I've been reading ever since I can remember....
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Wed Oct 28, 2015 2:56 am
origamidragons says...



I don't exactly remember when or what I started reading, but I know I was reading the Magic Tree House Books in preschool.
  





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Fri Oct 30, 2015 5:14 pm
Lava says...



A kids version of the Jataka tales, at 4ish.

Before that I used to "read" things like Goldilocks/Cinderella/Sleeping Beauty, by looking at the pictures.
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Fri Oct 30, 2015 6:36 pm
Zolen says...



Six, I hated reading and was behind everyone, all these boring ultra happy picture books annoyed me. But then they took me to a special class and I met this lady who showed me chapter books and novels, and I suddenly wanted to read. As suddenly I saw stories almost as interesting as the ones in my head.
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Wed Feb 17, 2016 2:48 pm
Lavvie says...



I voted for five, because that was when my love for reading really blossomed. The first book I read was Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

I think I was reading children's books before five by myself, though, like Dr. Seuss and Robert Munsch.


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Sun Mar 06, 2016 11:02 pm
Sins says...



Are we talking reading in English?

PLOT TWIST.

Jk, it's not that exciting. I didn't learn how to write or read in English until I was around 8, but I started reading Welsh when I was like 3-4 in nursery. The earliest book I remember reading is the Welsh translation of We're Going on a Bear Hunt. Such an epic story, goddamnit.
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Mon Mar 07, 2016 5:09 pm
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I started reading in Kindergarten, when I realized that words were not just these random lines that come together, but that they were easily deciphered. The first book I read on my own was... Either Mouse Soup or The Cat in the Hat, but I do not really remember which I read first....
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Wed Jun 08, 2016 9:55 pm
Bionik says...



I was four years old and simply tired of asking my parents to read smth for me :)
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