An interesting learner I've known

Growing up I always listened to rhymes in hip-hop music. I remember being the student who could remember lyrics but not remember the text I read. It was frustrating going through school wanting to grasp the readings. As I matured and began reading more on daily basis, I began to learn how to break down the reading in order to comprehend the text. Then a couple of years ago, I met a guy who had to accommodate his learning needs. He also was able to memorize hip-hop lyrics but would struggle with comprehending text. We started conversing on what helped us get through school material. He said, he discover writing information and outlining text in lyrics helped him process the information. After sometime of writing lyrics, he would just put an instrumental version of hip-hop music on while he studied. He talked about the process allowing him to read information aloud with using a beat. The beat as well as hearing himself would begin to let the information become knowledge. Today, he is a language arts teacher. In his classroom, he uses lyrics during his instruction. He also realized that lyrics would not reach every student and he has developed an art for drawing and writing comics.