A reading miracle: The story of a son learning to read from his mother Learning to read, for some of us, was a brilliant experience of the essentiality of home literacy activity. Many years ago in Primary class 4, the ability to speak English, Twi was not much of a challenge at all. The ability to sing songs and rhymes, and recite poems off-the-cuff in English was no big deal. To read however was as difficult as getting out of bed after night rains. A one-line sentence seemed like a 200-verse chapter from the Old Testament. It was difficult, boring and unattractive.