Sentence examples for learnt reading from inspiring English sources

He spent three years in an orphanage from the age of seven, was excluded from school, and spent several spells in prison in his teens and 20s where he learnt reading, writing and the basics of printing.

Usually missed, once you have learnt to read facial movements, you should begin to recognise them.

It's not that everyone has suddenly learnt to read, he says; they have simply stopped writing endearments.

The state saw its role as making sure that every child learnt to read, write and work with numbers.

He's got fantastic friends, he's learnt to read again and he wants to become a chef.

One of 11 children of Amazonian rubber-tappers, she grew up hungry and learnt to read only in her teens.

Stoney Edwards Poor Folks Stick Together (Razor & Tie) Edwards never learnt to read or write, but several of the former trucker's recordings were regarded as crying-into-your-beer classics.

Describing pictures in books as "tremendously motivating" for children, he lamented a widespread assumption that, "once you've learnt to read, you don't need the pictures any more".

Yurdagul Ay says her youngest daughter, Medya, learnt to read at school before the family was taken into detention, but the trauma of being removed from their home and placed behind locked doors has made her forget.

"Right now we've learnt to read a document, shift our gaze between the document and the scrollbar and the cursor when we're scrolling, and then check on the document to see if we've reached the point we want to reach". This is like knowing roughly how far you are through a book based on depth – as guided by the edges of paper beneath your fingertips.

Within this group learning environment participants kept food diaries and learnt to read food labels as well as receiving advice about food and exercise and discussing the risk factors they faced.