How do you write a book about learning how to read?

[Zero Day Defense]

As in, the fundamentals of reading.

 

[Gorgar]

If you can read this, then you are good to go.
If not, ask someone to read it to you; it'll make much more sense then.

 

[King Fructose]

The same way you’d tell a deaf person how to hear.

 

[Some JERK]

lots and lots of pictures

 

[Stoneheart]

Well i would make it in a diary format with marking my progress and hardship. main problem is that i dont know how to write like a normal person so i maybe need a couple of editors.

 

[SeniorFuckFace]

Audiobook.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

This shit can be used on people which are illiterate in Spanish.
So it's possible.

 

[Francesco Dellamorte]

You can assume anyone learning to read has some base vocabulary to work with. Use pictograms of simple words, start with vowels. c a t d o g and so on. Keep introducing levels of complexity.

 

[User names must be unique]

anyway you like then administer the book like so

 

[Tleilaxian]

Very carefully.

 

[Getwhatyou]

With pictures

 

[MediocreMilt]

You come up with a clever ending, then you work backwards.

 

[Vecr]

Luke Smith has a video about learning Latin, there's a book written in Latin that gets more complex as it goes on.

 

[Some JERK]

You come up with a clever ending, then you work backwards.

Something like "And that strange rock carving you were trying to read was your own tombstone the whole time!!!" ?

 

[Solid Snek]

Same way you write any book, really! I'd recommend a word processor, but if you're a quirky eccentric, you could try an old typewriter, or maybe a chain of Tweets and DMs, thousands of messages long.

 

[hotcheetospuffs]

In braille.

 

[Dancing Jouster]

Who's the intended audience? If it's someone learning the basics of language, then those building block books exist. If it's someone who is trying to learn how to do deeper analysis of a text, then Mortimer Adler's How to Read a Book is considered the gold standard on the different levels of reading and how to become a more active, analytical reader.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

See Spot.

See Spot run.

Run, Spot, run!