Reading Level @ start of AAP

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Anonymous wrote:My child read LOTR and the Hobbit with DH before kindergarten. So 4yo. They read for an hour each night from age 24 months until age 7. She could certainly comprehend it. And she could read a few pages at a time. On her own she was reading books like charlotte’s web before kindergarten.

She’s not the most advanced child I’ve ever met! And I’ve only met a small percentage of kids in the world. So I’d expect there are kids reading much better than her. This isn’t something you advertise. She’s not even in a gifted program.

I say this as a child whose mom read to her a lot before bed, through middle school, and I plan to read to mine as long as they’ll let me.

At one point my mom read aloud To Kill a Mockingbird me. I don’t think it was BAD that she read the book to me but to be clear while I understood the words my mom was reading, I did not fully appreciate the significance of the rape part until I read it again on my own when I was much older.

She understood enough of LOTR to enjoy it. I, like the poster above, wasn’t keen about the books. But this was DH’s thing. They read every night for about an hour together for 5 years. He had read dozens of novels to her before LOTR. He was reading chapter books to her before 2. She reread hobbit because she liked it so much.

She definitely had the patience and stamina. She also was a great reader herself. She had a good vocab. She was always ahead in reasoning. You know the old soul kids?

She read TKAM when she was 10.

You’re DH reading LOTR to her at age 4 is not the same thing at all as giving a 4 year old the book, having her read it independently and comprehend it on her own. You really don’t understand independent reading level.

Oh I agree. Her reading level was tested at 6th grade at the time. But she’s not the most gifted child I know. And I only know a few kids. She could read a few pages at a time but they were reading together. Im sure there exist kids who are much more advanced than my dd.

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Oh I agree. Her reading level was tested at 6th grade at the time. But she’s not the most gifted child I know. And I only know a few kids. She could read a few pages at a time but they were reading together. Im sure there exist kids who are much more advanced than my dd.

A 6th grade reading level at age 4 is so extraordinarily rare that there's no way you would have encountered kids who are more advanced than that. It's like saying that your 4 year old just passed Honors Algebra, but it's no big deal because you know of a few 4 year olds in Geometry. Having a child in the 99.999th percentile is at least vaguely plausible. Acting as if it's no big deal and that you personally know several kids more advanced than your DD is not even remotely possible.

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DP. For fun, we had 4 year old DS read the first couple pages of The Eye of the World out loud. It was cute in his little kid voice. He could say the words. He didn't comprehend it.

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Oh I agree. Her reading level was tested at 6th grade at the time. But she’s not the most gifted child I know. And I only know a few kids. She could read a few pages at a time but they were reading together. Im sure there exist kids who are much more advanced than my dd.

A 6th grade reading level at age 4 is so extraordinarily rare that there's no way you would have encountered kids who are more advanced than that. It's like saying that your 4 year old just passed Honors Algebra, but it's no big deal because you know of a few 4 year olds in Geometry. Having a child in the 99.999th percentile is at least vaguely plausible. Acting as if it's no big deal and that you personally know several kids more advanced than your DD is not even remotely possible.

I’m saying people with kids like this don’t go around advertising it. It’s not something that really comes up. You may know a child like this and not realize it. I’m not saying it isn’t remarkable. I’m saying I don’t think that just because you don’t know a child who reads like this doesn’t mean they can’t exist. I feel like they likely do because of experience with my prodigious little reader.

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Oh I agree. Her reading level was tested at 6th grade at the time. But she’s not the most gifted child I know. And I only know a few kids. She could read a few pages at a time but they were reading together. Im sure there exist kids who are much more advanced than my dd.

A 6th grade reading level at age 4 is so extraordinarily rare that there's no way you would have encountered kids who are more advanced than that. It's like saying that your 4 year old just passed Honors Algebra, but it's no big deal because you know of a few 4 year olds in Geometry. Having a child in the 99.999th percentile is at least vaguely plausible. Acting as if it's no big deal and that you personally know several kids more advanced than your DD is not even remotely possible.

I’m saying people with kids like this don’t go around advertising it. It’s not something that really comes up. You may know a child like this and not realize it. I’m not saying it isn’t remarkable. I’m saying I don’t think that just because you don’t know a child who reads like this doesn’t mean they can’t exist. I feel like they likely do because of experience with my prodigious little reader.

12:05 here. Hyperlexia isn't common. It is, by definition, remarkable.

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Oh I agree. Her reading level was tested at 6th grade at the time. But she’s not the most gifted child I know. And I only know a few kids. She could read a few pages at a time but they were reading together. Im sure there exist kids who are much more advanced than my dd.

A 6th grade reading level at age 4 is so extraordinarily rare that there's no way you would have encountered kids who are more advanced than that. It's like saying that your 4 year old just passed Honors Algebra, but it's no big deal because you know of a few 4 year olds in Geometry. Having a child in the 99.999th percentile is at least vaguely plausible. Acting as if it's no big deal and that you personally know several kids more advanced than your DD is not even remotely possible.

I’m saying people with kids like this don’t go around advertising it. It’s not something that really comes up. You may know a child like this and not realize it. I’m not saying it isn’t remarkable. I’m saying I don’t think that just because you don’t know a child who reads like this doesn’t mean they can’t exist. I feel like they likely do because of experience with my prodigious little reader.

12:05 here. Hyperlexia isn't common. It is, by definition, remarkable.

My child didn’t have hyperlexia. She could only read what she could comprehend.

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I’m saying people with kids like this don’t go around advertising it. It’s not something that really comes up. You may know a child like this and not realize it. I’m not saying it isn’t remarkable. I’m saying I don’t think that just because you don’t know a child who reads like this doesn’t mean they can’t exist. I feel like they likely do because of experience with my prodigious little reader.

It's still at the profoundly gifted 99.999th percentile territory. Kids like that exist, but they are so rare that it's implausible to know more than 1. Most people won't know any kids at that 1/100,000 level of rarity. I know a lot of kids. Even the ones who are advanced readers and easily in the 99th percentile couldn't handle LotR until maybe 3rd grade.

It's kind of like kids who are enrolled in college at age 12. They exist, but they're so rare that the overwhelming majority of people will not ever meet or know someone that gifted.

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Oh I agree. Her reading level was tested at 6th grade at the time. But she’s not the most gifted child I know. And I only know a few kids. She could read a few pages at a time but they were reading together. Im sure there exist kids who are much more advanced than my dd.

A 6th grade reading level at age 4 is so extraordinarily rare that there's no way you would have encountered kids who are more advanced than that. It's like saying that your 4 year old just passed Honors Algebra, but it's no big deal because you know of a few 4 year olds in Geometry. Having a child in the 99.999th percentile is at least vaguely plausible. Acting as if it's no big deal and that you personally know several kids more advanced than your DD is not even remotely possible.

Agree. This poster with the incredibly gifted reader is probably exaggerating her child’s and others’ abilities or is a troll.

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I’m saying people with kids like this don’t go around advertising it. It’s not something that really comes up. You may know a child like this and not realize it. I’m not saying it isn’t remarkable. I’m saying I don’t think that just because you don’t know a child who reads like this doesn’t mean they can’t exist. I feel like they likely do because of experience with my prodigious little reader.

The reason I don't believe you is that there would be such an enormous gulf between your child and the next best reader at your AAP center, that I don't see how you could be so nonchalant about the whole thing. You would have had years of the teachers telling you that your child is leagues beyond any child they've ever taught. Of course that's remarkable. I don't see how or why you'd assume that your child has a peer group at school or that it's no big deal.

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I’m saying people with kids like this don’t go around advertising it. It’s not something that really comes up. You may know a child like this and not realize it. I’m not saying it isn’t remarkable. I’m saying I don’t think that just because you don’t know a child who reads like this doesn’t mean they can’t exist. I feel like they likely do because of experience with my prodigious little reader.

The reason I don't believe you is that there would be such an enormous gulf between your child and the next best reader at your AAP center, that I don't see how you could be so nonchalant about the whole thing. You would have had years of the teachers telling you that your child is leagues beyond any child they've ever taught. Of course that's remarkable. I don't see how or why you'd assume that your child has a peer group at school or that it's no big deal.

Obviously this person is a liar.

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Agree. This poster with the incredibly gifted reader is probably exaggerating her child’s and others’ abilities or is a troll.

I think this poster on other threads has insisted that her DD is perfectly happy in AAP, is having her needs met, and has a peer group in AAP. It's ludicrous.

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Agree. This poster with the incredibly gifted reader is probably exaggerating her child’s and others’ abilities or is a troll.

I think this poster on other threads has insisted that her DD is perfectly happy in AAP, is having her needs met, and has a peer group in AAP. It's ludicrous.

And she also thinks Bc her husband read her LOTR that she can actually comprehend it.

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My child isn’t in AAP. She isn’t in a gifted program at all. I’m not lying. I’ve briefly posted about my dd before. She was independently tested by an outside team. Her teachers have always thrown up their arms. There has been nothing they can do. She is also ahead in math.

It’s true that the further removed I become from her early milestones the more remarkable they seem to me. I have other kids! She’s my oldest. But when she was doing these things I thought I was delusional.

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Anonymous wrote:My child isn’t in AAP. She isn’t in a gifted program at all. I’m not lying. I’ve briefly posted about my dd before. She was independently tested by an outside team. Her teachers have always thrown up their arms. There has been nothing they can do. She is also ahead in math.

It’s true that the further removed I become from her early milestones the more remarkable they seem to me. I have other kids! She’s my oldest. But when she was doing these things I thought I was delusional.

It's not that I doubt the existence of kids who are profoundly gifted. I question your portrayal of your DD on this forum. If she had a team of psychologists testing her at an early age and had teachers who found her so far beyond the curriculum that they had no idea how to even approach her, then there's no way you would imagine that there are tons of kids out there just like your DD. If your DD is as gifted as you claim, you're being weirdly disingenuous about the whole thing. The smartest kid in the grade is probably reading Harry Potter in 1st or K. It wouldn't at all strike you as odd if your kid is sitting next to that kid, reading War and Peace or some other full-fledged adult novel? I mean, really?

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Anonymous wrote:My child isn’t in AAP. She isn’t in a gifted program at all. I’m not lying. I’ve briefly posted about my dd before. She was independently tested by an outside team. Her teachers have always thrown up their arms. There has been nothing they can do. She is also ahead in math.

It’s true that the further removed I become from her early milestones the more remarkable they seem to me. I have other kids! She’s my oldest. But when she was doing these things I thought I was delusional.

It's not that I doubt the existence of kids who are profoundly gifted. I question your portrayal of your DD on this forum. If she had a team of psychologists testing her at an early age and had teachers who found her so far beyond the curriculum that they had no idea how to even approach her, then there's no way you would imagine that there are tons of kids out there just like your DD. If your DD is as gifted as you claim, you're being weirdly disingenuous about the whole thing. The smartest kid in the grade is probably reading Harry Potter in 1st or K. It wouldn't at all strike you as odd if your kid is sitting next to that kid, reading War and Peace or some other full-fledged adult novel? I mean, really?

LOL. Or had a copy of Lord of the Rings in K?! And she’s so gifted she’s not in AAP and not bored in all her classes?