Often the best teacher is motivation. If a kid wants to play games (especially like older games which were all text or very text heavy), then that desire will motivate them to learn to read better- just as a child who enjoys sports will tend to play them and learn them well and a child who does not enjoy sports usually will not become very good because they aren’t motivated to practice.
But once you’ve learned your basic letters and sounds, and the major punctuation- reading is simply a matter of doing, you read and as you do you learn and see patterns etc. in reference to games, think of an English teachers job as less to make you great at being able to follow along in other people’s games- that is a skill you pick up through practice, aided by a desire to read of course. It’s more to make you so well versed that you could easily create your own text heavy game “by the rules” of English; or so acquainted with language and literature as to be able to follow along a Kojima plot line without needing to read a “Kojima’s new plot explained” synopsis just to keep up and recognize subtext and themes and references and the like.
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