when you read you begin with ABC

     Unfortunately for the many adults who need basic literacy classes, there are no real shortcuts to learning to read.  It may take less time for an adult, but the beginning is still the ABC's--learning to write them, both upper and lower case, learning to recognize them, and learning the sounds that they represent. Any adult who does this is more than halfway to literacy. Adults who try to skip this don't learn to read--and the teachers who have told them that there is a "shortcut" have done them a disservice, and worse than a disservice.