"Gary" wrote in message
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first. There are reasons why kids learn to read with books from Dr.
Seuss rather than Dr. Salk, why the first science class offered in
elementary school isn't quantum physics; why you can't go from junior

That's not a bad place to leave it. Sims are not an unreasonable first step,
just as Sam I Am makes for a companionable reading primer. The skills and
decision making transfer directly. Some don't progress much beyond flipping
pages and looking at the primary color illustrations, but others have
returned in later life to study his use of anapestic tetrameter. You get out
of it what you put into it. It can be a little. It can be a lot.