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I remember back in kindergarten when we would have color by number worksheets (not sure why those ones specifically stand out in my memory, but.. *shrug* ). The teacher would tell us not to start doing the sheet before she fully read & explained all the directions. She would then proceed to (with excrutiating slowness) read & explain each step. "Step 1, take your red crayon ..Can everyone find their red crayon? Hold them up. Good. Now color the number '1' in the instructions red. Good. Now, when we're done going over the instructions (but not now!), you will color all the boxes with a number '1' in them red. Got it? Good. Step 2, take your blue crayon... {repeat for all 8 or so steps}. Now, lets go over all the steps one more time.... ......Does anybody have any questions? Yes, suzy..? {30 minutes later....} Ok, now you may all begin!"
I honestly tried to do as told & wait for her to drag her ass through all the instructions, but I simply could not force myself to read nor think that slowly. By the time she was done reading the first step to the class, I had finished reading all of them to myself. By the time she told everyone to start, I was already 90% finished.
I had similar experiences in later reading classes, during the group/read aloud sessions. I would always try to keep up (down) with everyone else, but I just couldn't. I would inevitably wind up reading ahead (which I always got bitched at for whenever the teacher took notice. Of course, she wouldn't have had to bitch at me all the time if she would have gotten off her lazy ass & put me in a more appropriately difficult reading group. Of course, that would have required her to actually do her job & TEACH her students... Anyhoo, moving on...).
The funny part is that I could read several pages ahead AND still keep track of where the rest of the group was at, AND when my turn was approaching. As it got close to my turn, I would discreetly flip back to where everyone was, then jump in for my part, then go back to where I had left off. The only times the system failed was when I got too engrossed in the story & lost track of where everyone else was, at which point I would have to own up to reading ahead & ask where "we" were.
When it was my turn to read aloud, I would be very impatient with everyone else dragging their heels, and I would just buzz right through my paragraph. A fact which always resulted in the teacher bitching at me to slow down because the other kids couldn't keep up (again teacher, quit being so damned lazy & move me to a more challenging group).
While I enjoyed the reading classes where we could just work at our own pace, those read aloud essions were always an exercise in sheer frustration.
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