First grade

I don't think I can remember exactly when I learned to read. I do remember my grandfather telling me to stop saying the words from memory in some of the books we used to read. I went to private school for pre-k and kindergarten where reading was a huge deal. Also, my grandfather read with me A LOT. My first clear memory of the reading process is from first grade. I moved to a new school and I remember my reading class, I remember being bored out of my mind. I must have learned how to read in kindergarten because I hated writing the letters over and over again and sounding them out. We would go around the room taking turns reading a story. I usually would have the whole story read before the first kid was done with one sentence. Reading out loud was something I despised, and still do. My mind would read a lot faster than my mouth could move and I would spend so much energy on trying to say the words clearly that when I was finished I had no idea what I just read.