I also picked up that Superman comic book. Each panel, complete with picture, dialogue and narrativewas a three-dimensional paragraph. In one panel, Superman breaks through a door. His suit is red, blue and yellow. The brown door shatters into manypieces. I look at the narrative above the picture. I cannot read the words, but I assume it tells me that "Superman is breaking down the door." Aloud, I pretendto read the words and say, "Superman is breaking down the door." Words, dialogue, also float out of Superman's mouth. Because he is breaking down the door,I assume he says, "I am breaking down the door." Once again, I pretend to read the words and say aloud, "I am breaking down the door" In this way, I learnedto read.
Here, Alexie explains how he started to learn to read by saying the words he believed to be there out loud. it was through this that he became verbal in his reading and learned to comprehend these words.
it was similar to how i learned to read and write, my mother bought the little Einstein DVDs and played them on the TV, it was through these DVDs that i learned more than just words, but comprehension further more.