What is your Kindergartener's Reading Ability Right Now?

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Anonymous wrote:I would just say as the parent of older (college aged) kids...don't get too excited either way about your kindergartener's reading ability. Two of our kids were reading at the 2nd ant 3rd grade levels in kindergarten. They graduated from high school as good, but not great students. Another one of our children had absolutely no interest at all in reading. She was definitely not reading in kindergarten. She wasn't really reading on level until second grade. She graduated from high school a National Merit Scholar. Her ACT and SAT scores were insanely nigh. And she is a sophomore in college on a full academic scholarship. Even as a very young toddler, she loved books. She loved to be read to. She loved to look at books. She just had no interest in learning to read until she got older.

Well, this begs the question do you think your younger daughter is more intelligent, or is she simply a more persistant dedicated student. There's a difference in raw ability and execution.

Ha ha college mom. No good deed goes unpunished. I have kids in college and kindergarten and think it's best described as a grab bag. You just don't know what you'll get and how they'll end up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son can read about 80% of the words in one of those Level 1 books. Slowly. This is better than what he could do when he first started kindergarten in September, so I'm not worried. I'm just curious about what other kids are doing right now. I know many of the other kids in his class were reading when they started kindergarten. Is that really the norm?

I think the parents on this forum can only speak to their child. My child started Pre-K reading after teaching himself. Do you care ? You shouldn't.

Seems you should have just had a parent/teacher conference, why not ask the professionals ( his teachers). Though KDG might be young for them to bring it up if they suspect there might be a problem, they will tell you if you ask. That is their job.

Secondly, if you are worried, read to him more ( 30 minutes every night) , and ask his teachers if he needs help. Don't burry your head in sand. The school might wait until they are ready to designante him as " having difficulty" to tell you and that might be 1st grade.