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Originally Posted by Catlady
This is exactly how I learned to read. My mother would read my favorite stories--Little Golden Books, I think--I gradually memorized them, and at some point my brain made the connection with the words on the page and I was reading.
Sure, but most of the time aren't adults consuming books for entertainment, not learning?
No, but is the purpose the process or the destination? Your analogy involves quite different levels of exertion; I would say reading or listening is more like taking a bus or taking a train. They're different experiences, but not all THAT different. But of course this is after one learns to read; I'm not talking about best ways to teach that basic skill in the first place.
I have a lot of duplication also; most of it is because I've gotten audiobooks of many old favorites and enjoyed revisiting them.
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I, in the other hand, was apparently born reading, at least according to my mother.
As I said, for us adults, it really doesn't matter. For school age kids, it's a bit different. There is a reason that we read Shakespeare's plays rather than watched a video of the play, even though the video was probably a lot closer to the original experience. For one thing, it's pretty hard to make notes while listening to an audiobook, a lot easier to make notes in the margin, or with a sticky (or equivalent on an ebook) while studying.