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Podcast: The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy
Episode: 🎧 102: So delicious was the pleasure ...
Description: 3SO DELICIOUS was the pleasure of listening to adults read to me that I resisted learning to read for a long time. Mr. Beaker came to my parents’ house a few times a week to read to me and to try to teach me to read. He would run his finger along the lines of type as he read to demonstrate that it was from them that he was taking his words, and I soon began to understand that he was just repeating what was already in the book, that he wasn’t improvising the stories from the...