Somehow, we all learned to read...

It's true. We learned how to read. But how that happened is a mystery to me. And, as far as I can tell, it's a mystery to the "experts" too. We know that kids learn how to read. (Unless they don't, which is another story. But for the most part...they do.) We know that learning to read correlates with certain stages of human development. In other words, when a person reaches the right mental/emotional stage...poof! Reading! We also know that learning to read is related to exposure and/or access to texts. In other words, if kids are exposed to books and if other people read books to them...poof! Reading!