Reading Level @ start of AAP

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Anonymous wrote:There are kids who can comprehend lord of the rings at age 4 so reading Harry Potter at age 8 seems reasonable for gifted kids.

Here’s your original post where you imply your daughter read LOTR on her own and comprehended it. You actually meant to say, at 4, her Dad read her LOTR outloud and she seemed to understand it. That’s completely different from kids who read Harry Potter on their own at 8, too.

Nope. I never implied my dd read and comprehended LOTR independently. I claimed she comprehended the books being read aloud to her at 4 (maybe still 3. DH isn’t sure). —which to me, means comprehending Harry Potter at age 8 isn’t such ridiculous a claim. That’s my opinion. When was this? Back on par 2? 6 pages of derailment later...

The idea that a 4yo could read and comprehend LOTR isn’t do outlandish to me. But I’ll concede my ideas of what’s normal, advanced, really advanced etc are skewed from watching dd read so early. I’m not going to give out any more details of her life. Because it will never be enough. I’ve got the results and actual tests used. I felt I hinted to them well enough. But next you’ll want IQ subtexts and SAT scores and the actual school she goes to.

You refuse to elaborate on the testing- name of tests, why given, score, etc. I believe your child understood the gist of a book likely explained to her and read with a lot of theatrical emotion. I do not believe your child took tests that evidences the levels of reading you claim (yet refuse to backup).