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One thing I learned trying to fix two dyslexic kids is spelling is processed in a different part of the brain from reading and so is writing. So yu have to fix each seperately. Very interesting on the word chunks. That's new to me. Fluency in reading means it is totally unconscious. You dont notice yu are doing it. I'd say few kids being taught today are reaching that. Were yu taught to read phonetically or whole word?
 
Really inspiring thread! I'm particularly suckling on these two right now, from deep in structural edits (which are NOT my forté) and the resultant rewrites:
5)Plot holes cannot be avoided, only embraced.
3) The stuff I liked the best came from stuff I wasn't sure would work, and wasn't sure how to do, but did it anyway.
 
One thing I learned trying to fix two dyslexic kids is spelling is processed in a different part of the brain from reading and so is writing. So yu have to fix each seperately. Very interesting on the word chunks. That's new to me. Fluency in reading means it is totally unconscious. You dont notice yu are doing it. I'd say few kids being taught today are reaching that. Were yu taught to read phonetically or whole word?
Hum, I think when I was very young, like first readers, sounding things out, but also through pictures. I remember the pictures more than the words or letters. So I suspect from an early age I related word patterns to images.
 
I learnt to read upside down. At 3 years old, I'd stand in front of my sister (5) and watch her finger on the word and listen to her or my father read it out. No one realised I could read (by 3 1/2) until I was holding those same (ladybird) books upside down. When someone turned them the right way up I frowned and said I couldn't read them that way. So I guess I learnt to read by matching sound to patterns - all be it the upside-down patterns. (If you're wondering, it didn't take me long to read the right way up - through my big red book of bedtime stories. I can still easily read both ways.)
 
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Oh wow! You're all kinds of talented! And those two skills born from hardships of not being able to do what you wanted. Reading and writing... there was just no stopping you! :D
 
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