I don't think I've ever had a Reading Aloud Time that warrants the capital letters (but then, I did go to school in Germany until I was eleven, and they were a lot less overbearing than schools in America.) but I do remember people reading aloud during various phases of my school life and being painfully slow and boring about it.
And I know I read under the table (most notably causing me to know absolutely nothing about American History, but quite a lot about the history of Middle Earth as set out in the Silmarillion) and during recess, but no-one ever bothered me about it. I did miss the recess bell a few times because I was so engrossed in my book, but I can't remember ever getting in trouble about that, either. Maybe I was just lucky.
But I'm pretty proud of the fact that, even though I moved to a different country with only basic school-taught knowledge of the language, after a little while I was still reading faster/more than most of the kids in my class in America.
Thinking about it, I don't actually remember reading much English apart from Old Yeller and whatnot they gave us in school. Perhaps I just have to Pokemon games to thank for my English reading proficiency, then. And they say games are bad for kids.
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Date: 2008-01-30 12:12 pm (UTC)And I know I read under the table (most notably causing me to know absolutely nothing about American History, but quite a lot about the history of Middle Earth as set out in the Silmarillion) and during recess, but no-one ever bothered me about it. I did miss the recess bell a few times because I was so engrossed in my book, but I can't remember ever getting in trouble about that, either. Maybe I was just lucky.
But I'm pretty proud of the fact that, even though I moved to a different country with only basic school-taught knowledge of the language, after a little while I was still reading faster/more than most of the kids in my class in America.
Thinking about it, I don't actually remember reading much English apart from Old Yeller and whatnot they gave us in school. Perhaps I just have to Pokemon games to thank for my English reading proficiency, then. And they say games are bad for kids.