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Comment author: CronoDAS 09 June 2011 12:14:39AM 2 points [-]

I don't remember how or why I learned to read (I sort of remember being able to read at least a little at the age of two, and my mom says I learned how by watching the TV show "The Electric Company") but I have more information about my younger brother, who was determined to learn to read because he wanted to play the same video games I did.

Comment author: David_Gerard 09 June 2011 08:57:42AM *  0 points [-]

Yes, incentive! She's taken to dolly dress-up Flash games of late. She can reliably identify the words "Play", "Start" and "Click here" because she has strong personal incentive to :-D So if I can give her a good personal incentive, she'll do the work and do it well. (Evidently, "all the stories!" isn't enough ;-)

Comment author: CronoDAS 13 June 2011 12:31:15AM 2 points [-]

See if you can get her interested in Pokemon. :)

I'm not entirely joking here: James Paul Gee once called it "perhaps the best literacy curriculum ever conceived", although I'm not really sure how serious he was being.