Reading PICTURES on CARDS: The Joke’s on Me!

[rachelcat]

I was reminiscing with my family over the holidays, and it came up that my first grade teacher was not pleased to find that I could read before I started school. (Go figure . . .) (I couldn’t really help it--my brother is a year older than I and was having trouble in school, so my mom basically taught him to read at home, and, of course, I was right there soaking up “story time” as hard as I could!)

I mentioned that my greatest recollection of all this was that I was completely DISGUSTED that that we had to start off reading PICTURES! That’s not REALLY reading, you know. So I would just wander off during class to find a REAL book to read somewhere in the classroom (endearing me to the teacher, I’m sure!).

So on the way home from my mom’s house, my husband makes the point that now my favorite thing to do in the whole world is to READ PICTURES!!!

Then I remembered that in junior high we had to do these programmed reading drills with of color-coded cards. (I remember the highest level color was purple . . . ) I was also highly offended by this activity, partially because we weren’t reading from a real book--these were just blurbs on CARDS!!!

Ah, how things change . . .

Of course, now that I’ve found out I can (buy and) read lots of books ABOUT pictures on cards, I feel much better!!!

I’ve been chuckling about this so I thought I’d share. I hope you have a giggle on me!

[memries]

That is a funny story Rachelcat. I find that these days I walk into a room with people in it and it is like a picture to me and I find myself reading the scene ! Tarot cards on the brain I guess. I must say it is quite interesting anyway. One person will be down, another up, another putting on a face when really they are sad and occasionally that jolly person who is not jolly.

Reading pictures..huh ? I would suppose that is what we do when we look at a magazine with all the advertisements in it. They are very good at getting people to read the picture and really no words. That pretty dress gets you to think, I would like something like that or wow, what a mess who would wear that ! I suppose it is just part of life and we do it unconsciously most of the time.

[MoonLitCrystal]

Tarot cards are a wonderful illustration (pun intended) of the saying, "A picture's worth a thousand words."

[Kenny]

So on the way home from my mom’s house, my husband makes the point that now my favorite thing to do in the whole world is to READ PICTURES!!
At least he didn't say this in public... :D

[inuzrule]

I dunno, while I always have been a very enthusiastic reader all my life, my favorite thing to do as a child was to sit, look at picture books (especially those of fairy tales), and get lost within the images.

Nothing much has changed, I'm happy to say. But for a while I refused to read books above my grade level, so enamored was I with my illustrations. It really frustrated my teachers, as they felt I wasn't living up to my potential.

Words are well and good, and I couldn't function without them, but pictures hold true power over a person.

[raeanne]

.......Then I remembered that in junior high we had to do these programmed reading drills with of color-coded cards. (I remember the highest level color was purple . . . )OMG! I remember those! On the last day of school one year our teacher made us do those for half the day. All of us kids were bored beyond belief! Guess the teacher didn't want to work that day. Thanks for recalling that memory for me! What a laugh!

[Pao]

lol do you find it now that pictures speak more than words? like the pictures have a million more stories to tell than the words? :D