Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Wenis Wednesday - Literacy Edition


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Literacy: the ability to read and write.

When did you Bitches learn to read and write and from whom?

16 comments:

  1. Self taught.... learnt to read via the Radio Times, as my Mum wouldn't tell me when Crackerjack was on. At the age of eight I decided it was time to learn how to read.
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    1. MISS SCARLET: You obviously weren’t paying attention as the show was introduced with the phrase "It's Friday, it's five o'clock. . . It's Crackerjack!"

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  2. First grade as well. The teacher was Mrs. Bagarella. We cleverly called her Bags of Gorillas. I surely would've enjoyed Infomaniac Charter School more.

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    1. NORMA: I would have called her Mrs. Bagatelle, had I known the meaning of the word at that age.

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  3. First grade teacher. Name withheld to protect the innocent.

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    1. LX: Protect the innocent?

      Surely she’s not still alive?

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  4. First grade, Catholic school. I do not recall the teachers' names. They were two mean, strict older women. I must've blocked out their names on purpose!

    Second grade teacher was nicer, but still strict and demanding. Taught me multiplication and math.

    Third grade teacher was nicest but held us to high standards. I liked her. I also discovered comics. That started me on the path to reading for fun. Been a sci-fi fantasy fan since. Also discovered old National Geographic magazines, encouraged my passion for travel and art and history and architecture.

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    1. EROS: Based on your epic posts and ability to weave a story, those teachers must have done something right.

      As for National Geographic, before easy access to girlie magazines and before the Internet, that's where boys went to see what female breasts looked like.

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  5. First grade, 1959-60, Sister Concepta. However the day she explained reading comprehension I was too busy thinking about Barbies which didn't do well for me in years to come.

    BrianB

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    1. BrianB: Just as long as you could read well enough to assemble the Barbie Dreamhouse™.

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  6. Miss Morris, first grade. She was the perfect first grade teacher. Soft and round and terribly sweet, she was a spinster who loved children. I grasped reading the first time she explained how the letters came together to form words and I was off and reading like a greyhound let off the leash.

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    1. PEENEE: All first-graders should be so lucky. Your first teachers really set you up for life.

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  7. My mother taught me my letters (lower and upper case) before Kindergarten, which made me seem like an outsider to some of the children when I tried to correct them. I suppose it was a combination of my Kindergarten teacher and my mom who taught me how to assemble and decipher them in writin' and readin'.

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    1. RIMPY: You and me both. I was four years old and asked my mother to teach me how to read. I'm still trying to correct people, to this day.

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