Learning to read, how did you do it?

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Personally i Learnt to read at the age of 7 from my grandmother reading out entire newspapers to me. and by Nine my favourite book was an encyclopedia.

anyone else have peculiar learning habits?

Don't know. I was reading quite fluently before age 3; I can't remember not being able to read.

I also can't remember learning to read. I know I did it before I started school, because in Kindergarten I could read the things around me quite well already. My parents said they used hooked on phonics with me...my older sister claims to have taught me using that method herself. They gave up with the hooked on math pretty quickly I'd guess.

I learnt to read by playing pokemon gold and silver versions. I was 11. so this must have been about 2001.
I Then found the dictionary and it became my best friend. =) and then a thethorus...

ahh the dictionary, i used to read the dictionary for pleasure!

I have no idea, but I was able to read by the time I was 5.

I don't remember either as I was reading before kindergarten. And I remember reading the dictionary and encyclopedia (first Golden, the Brittanica) for fun. I taught my first two boys to read using a spontaneous phonics method, and the third one with the book How To Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Lessons. I could not teach the girls how to read.

My mom started teaching me to read at age 2 to 3. She had a big white book with no pictures at all, just reading exercises. I remember I hated when that book came out at bedtime instead of a story book! She made no effort to make it fun for me, but in the long run it did turn out well. I could read well before I went to preschool.

I much preferred my dad's method. He'd start a book and pretend to fall asleep right in the climax scene. He'd say something like, "Oh, I'm too sleepy to finish reading this, you'll have to read it to me instead if you want to know what happens."

I liked our World Book encyclopedias. I especially enjoyed the flip-through dissections of human and frog bodies. I was fascinated by the use of graphics to augment the written passages.

My mom read to me but I didn't learn to read myself until I went to school. Mom was busy with babies. School showed me how letters made sounds and sounds made words and I took off on my own. I was reading at high school level by the third grade.

i started talking very early but for some reason i didnt start to really learn to read until i was in 1st grade (1 year later than everyone else) but by 2nd grade i was already reading at a 6th grade level.

I have been able to read since between the ages of 2 and 3. When I was younger my parents used to read to me, but I did not like being read to as much as reading because it was much slower and difficult to concentrate. I used to read encyclopedias and atlases, but my parents made me read other things as well. I had to read a fiction book for every non-fiction book I read. Due to my interest in languages, in particular writing systems, I have learnt to read text in Cyrillic, Greek, Thai and some Chinese, but I can only understand the meaning of Chinese. My reading speed in these languages ranges from about half as quick as English for Cyrillic, meaning I can read aloud comfortably, to very slowly in Thai. Spelling has always been simple as I remember how to spell a word after I have read it.

I have been able to read small children books since I was 5 but when I started in school I began to suddenly being able to read it went pretty quickly actually only a day or two then I was able to read much bigger books.

I don't remember learning to read. I remember that in kindergarten, I was writing letters, and kept decorating them with crowns I was obsessed that I was queen of my own invisible world, though it was really just me dreaming of having gazillions of servants to boss around. In grade 2(?), I remember we were looking at the pronunciation of letters, and I remember looking at grass and hyper-focusing on a-s-s XD I didn't know the meaning, but I found it interesting that day for some reason. I know I remember the reason, but it's fuzzy XD
In grade 4 I believe, I started reading chapter books. I was scared of the transition, and my teacher compared it to me continuing to draw stick people (with clothing and decorations) despite knowing how to draw real people.
In grade 6, I was in the "young adult" section because I had read most of the books in the library. Well, books that were fiction, I had very little interest in non-fiction except if it was a "fact books." I LOVED those kinds of books where they tell you meaningless trivia

Bribery, dollar towards pokemon for every 5 books I read

I had a children's encyclopedia set with many fun facts and pictures I read to my mother.