Robin learned to read at the age of 50 thanks to a teacher who taught him numerous reading strategies and believed in his ability to read. In the beginning, the instructor helped Robin by using letter tiles to learn word families like -ick and -ack. He began putting the tiles together to read words like pack and brick. He next caught on the strategy of chunking words. He became overjoyed when he realized ay says /A/ and used that knowledge to further chunk words. He read the sentence about Egglands best and noticed the word egg and land and was able to chunk those letters to break up a long word he was unfamiliar with. This strategy was seen again when he read his email account set-up page that said "Congratulations".
The instructor also taught Robin by reading simple text like Stone Soup. He caught himself saying gave instead of give, because he knew it was not grammatically correct and did not make sense in the story. The strategy of being able to monitor your own reading is extremely important for all beginning reading. Like Robin, students need to read and reread a sentence if it doesn't make grammatical sense to see which word they are miscueing on.
I also thought the idea of "reading the world" was so important throughout the entire video. For all of his life, Robin's wife had to read him the world. He would call her for help with signs and billboards, but now he is able to read them himself. Making real world connections are so important for beginning readers. They need to realize why reading is a necessary skill and important at every stage of life. Robin was able to finally read the world by setting up an email account, reading birthday cards and thank you notes, comic strips, the newspaper,and most importantly, reading his bible.
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