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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP.  My DC told me in 1st grade that "Good readers look at the pictures."

Uh what?  Good readers look at the letters/words.  [/quote]

Why would good readers ignore either one? [/quote]

Reading involves looking at letters and converting them to sounds.   Pictures are only in books for little kids.   As they get older the pictures will go away and all they will be left with is letters.  If they can’t connect them to sounds, they will have had a huge disservice done to them by letting them use pictures to avoid actually reading. [/quote]

This. The idea that pictures are somehow integral to learning to read is ridiculous.  For generations, children learned to read from just regular books, often the family bible. [/quote]

And many learn to read from picture books, not the bible.[/quote]

But pictures won’t help my kid read Harry Potter at age 5 since it has very few pictures (we don’t own the illustrated version). Isn’t bragging about tots reading HP a key part of DCUM?

Seriously though, you have to read some non-illustrated books sometimes. Phonics helps you tackle unfamiliar words in those too.[/quote]

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