Bhattacharjea, Suman
(2013)
Thinking differently about ‘access’.
Learning Curve (21).
pp. 26-29.
Abstract
I clearly remember the moment when I realized
that I could read. I must have been five years old. I
was at home, sitting on the floor with a storybook,
reading a story one word at a time. And suddenly
(this is how I remember it, at least) - I was reading
whole sentences from beginning to end, without
stopping. I could read! outcome of a process that had started years
before. My mother would read to us regularly at
bedtime. I was always surrounded by story
books. My father was a journalist, and our home
was full of print materials of all sorts. The printed
word was a basic, taken-for-granted element of
the fabric of our home.
It wasn’t until many years later that I looked back
and thought about this amasing moment, and
everything that it signified. Obviously, it was the
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