Why It’s Important to Read

Trey Smit discusses how his brother learned the importance of reading through playing The Legend of Zelda: The Adventure of Link.

My brother couldn’t have been older than four or five when we would take turns playing The Legend of Zelda: The Adventure of Link. Often, especially Saturday mornings we would sit together eating cereal and playing. My brother could read somewhat, but not enough to always understand what characters were saying.

At some point I decided that there were other ventures that needed my attention on Saturdays and I left our routine. My brother came to me and said “But how am I going to know what they’re saying? How will I know when all else fails to use fire? Or that Goriya of Tantari stole the trophy?” (Ok he might not have asked those last two parts.) I told him he would have to learn to read himself, because he couldn’t always depend on other people to read for him.

Later when he went to kindergarten and was being taught the alphabet his teacher asked the class why it was important to know letters. My little brother immediately spoke up saying “Letters make words and you have to know words to be able to read. If you can’t read then you can’t figure out what you need to do in video games because your older brother isn’t always going to read them for you.”

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    really like this,...exact same game.
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