when you are starting on day 1, isn't it obvious you don't know any written words and you have no skills to put the letters together, because you are just start

when you are starting on day 1, isn't it obvious you don't know any written words and you have no skills to put the letters together, because you are just starting out?? Then saying "just start recognizing word as a sequence of letters like the skillful readers do" is about as helpful as "just start reading" if you've never done this before.