Learn to Read a Different Way

Learn to Read a Different Way

by Jacob Malewitz

First off, let me just say this—I learned how to read by looking at comics, by having my father sit in his chair and tell me what Iron Man or Batman was doing, why The Joker was bad, why Tony Start drank, why Bruce Wayne lost his parents. I had to learn to read. My father couldn’t just dictate to me for the rest of my life. He didn’t go too fast or too slow—I just ran into problems when I wanted more and more. So I picked up the comics, began to look closer. I guess I didn’t learn completely how to read by picking up comics, school obviously helped. But they put that mindset in me that to read was something bigger than anything else, it had its own power.

I suppose without those super heroes and villains I still could’ve learned to read. It was just more enjoyable to think about why Iron Man was trapped in a submarine than why the dog barked at the boy (I am thinking of picture books there).

This is something to be discussed more. For without my reading, I may have never found the love of writing.

How did you learn to read? Drop me an email at jfmalewitz at gmail dot com.

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