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Ready to Read
Moms of kindergartners and first-graders, I'm going to warn you: Learning to read is the 5-year-old equivalent of potty training. Your kid might not get it right away; he could show no interest, or flat-out refuse. Then there are those well-meaning but highly annoying parents who will go on and on about their little bookworm-in-the-making. Don't let their bragging stress you out.
"It doesn't really matter very much whether your child learns to read at the beginning of kindergarten or the end of first grade," says Jan Burkins, Ed.D., coauthor of Preventing Misguided Reading and founder of Literacyhead.com, a reading website. "Among older readers, there is little distinction between those who learned early and those who took a little longer. By third grade, most late readers have caught up with early ones." Let your kid's teacher take care of the actual reading lessons, advises Dr. Burkins. And your role? Well, read all about it!
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I thought you might like to hear about my son. He tought him self to read by the time he was 3 years old. I realize this is the exception, but because of his ability, the schools didn't know how to handle him and they turned him off of school. He would only study those subjects he was interested in. Because of this, he wouldn't go to colledge. The good thing, one of his interests was computors and he now works in that field and is doing very well.
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