At What Age Should Child Know How to Write Name?

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter is 4 and I've been having her meet 1-on-1 with a tutor. We are in the suburbs, so it's a lot of SAHMs who put their kids in preschool a few days a week when they are 3 or 4 (or not at all) so it's not a place where the majority of kids are in daycare from infancy learning these things in daycare.

Anyway, the tutor is very well versed on what the standards are and what they learn in K and such. She said that when kids enter kindergarten there is an enormous gap in what each child knows. Some kids come in able to read and write and do simple math. Some kids just know their alphabet, numbers to 10 and can barely write. And others even less. In the poorer neighborhoods, some kids don't even know how to hold a pencil properly and have never had a book read to them.

Point being I would not stress too much until your kid is in K and they have been given time to learn and be taught all of this. The teacher should say something if there is an issue.

I enjoy the juxtaposition of your two statements.

She wants to learn how to read. I don't have the training, nor the patience, to teach her to do so. In addition, she doesn't attend preschool. I'm hardly sending her to a tutor 1 time a week to make her a super genius.

Seriously??? I've seen a lot of bizarre confessions on DCUM, but this one truly amazes me!

Me too. She should be reading already, especially if she has a tutor. Why isn't she?

I don't understand why this is so shocking. I have zero background in teaching or tutoring. She just turned 4 and has seen the tutor maybe 8 times. She can read sight words and write. But I can't give her a book (outside of picture books) for her to read. Your 4yo's are reading simple chapter books? I guess mine is behind, so good thing she is seeing a tutor!

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I love it! A private tutor for a 4 year old. One of the funnier things I have read here. And your reason is she isn't going to preschool?! The point of preschool is socialization. Not learning to read!

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My kid could barely hold a crayon on his third birthday (he was also barely talking). By 3 and 2 months he was writing his name clearly, and in order. By 3 and 10 months he was reading, had a very extensive, sophisticated vocabulary and could draw identifiable pictures and label them.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is 4 and I've been having her meet 1-on-1 with a tutor. We are in the suburbs, so it's a lot of SAHMs who put their kids in preschool a few days a week when they are 3 or 4 (or not at all) so it's not a place where the majority of kids are in daycare from infancy learning these things in daycare.

Anyway, the tutor is very well versed on what the standards are and what they learn in K and such. She said that when kids enter kindergarten there is an enormous gap in what each child knows. Some kids come in able to read and write and do simple math. Some kids just know their alphabet, numbers to 10 and can barely write. And others even less. In the poorer neighborhoods, some kids don't even know how to hold a pencil properly and have never had a book read to them.

Point being I would not stress too much until your kid is in K and they have been given time to learn and be taught all of this. The teacher should say something if there is an issue.

I enjoy the juxtaposition of your two statements.

She wants to learn how to read. I don't have the training, nor the patience, to teach her to do so. In addition, she doesn't attend preschool. I'm hardly sending her to a tutor 1 time a week to make her a super genius.

Wait, you don't have the training or patience to teach your daughter to read?

What kind of training do you imagine is involved in sitting with a toddler and reading a favorite book together? Which is how kids learn to read.

We read lots of books, which is why she wants to be able to read them on her own. And the ones she wants to read aren't simple picture books, with one word per page. Being exposed to reading isn't going to automatically teach you how to read, it will just help reinforce what they're learning. I've never heard that just reading books to children will make them learn to read? And no, I do not have the patience to do it. I've been 'gifted' since I was little. I have a hard time teaching people things, because they just automatically happen in my brain, if that makes any sense. I don't have a process to explain how to get from A-Z, because I just get right to Z. I have the same issue with my oldest when he's doing math. I can look at a problem and just know the answer, but it's hard for me to break down how I actually got there, which is the most important part of learning things at a young age. I have no problems admitting that, and letting professionals trained in teaching kids to teach my kids, and reinforcing what they've learned at home.

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Anonymous wrote:I love it! A private tutor for a 4 year old. One of the funnier things I have read here. And your reason is she isn't going to preschool?! The point of preschool is socialization. Not learning to read!

She socializes at her activities and play dates and amongst the friends she has in our neighborhood. And I think a lot of parents would argue against preschool just being for socializing. I'm not sure why having a 4yo meet with a tutor once a week is so "entertaining".

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My kiddo could do at about 3.5. However he is one of only a few who can do it in his 4-yr preschool class.