What can your first grader read independently?

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Anonymous wrote:Mine has read most of the classics. He’s starting to translate them into Greek now for a hobby

My daughter is working on Latin, there are so many benefits to starting them young.

Mine is already on his 6th language. Keep up!

Mine is only fluent in 4, but is already taking college classes online.

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Mine is currently going through all the Roald Dahl books - Matilda, BFG, etc.

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My first grader can read very well (but she is one of the oldest kids in her class, nearly a year older than others - and that can make a really big difference). She could probably read some of the stuff mentioned earlier with regards to Greek Mythologies and Novels. But there is no way she wants to do that and there is no way I would ever press her to. She chooses comics and graphics novels filled with an array of illustrations. At this age, why not. It is fun and it is providing her with such a great opportunity to practice reading, while also teaching her a bit about visual character cues, and she is having great enjoyment while doing it. Mind you she has decided to take some of the huge graphic novels into the bathroom with her and sometimes we don't see her for an hour, and it is usually at bedtime, so there is that...
Def don't sweat it if your kid is not as good a reader yet as other 1st Graders. It all probably flattens out by 3rd or 4th. My kid really only started reading "well" about 1/2 through the year, and it came out of nowhere.

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Anonymous wrote:Literally anything she wants. She has read the entire Percy Jackson series and series made for kids mythology chapter books.

BUT THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

How are her reading test scores/what level does it say on her report card?

Cool

OP, you are fine. I had one of these first graders like the Percy Jackson mom. Guess what? By 2nd or 3rd grade, most everyone knows how to read, and nobody cares that your kid used to be the first one reading chapter books.

Barring the true cases of 99th percentile IQ highly gifted children who go to special schools for the highly gifted, the 7 year olds supposedly reading Percy Jackson and Harry Potter aren't fully understanding it all. My DD could also "read" such books, as in open the page and say the words without stumbling. But the vocabulary and the situations and the subtle humor went over her head many times. I've only met two kids who really could read-read these books in 1st grade without needing someone to re-explain anything in simpler terms. Always take the anonymous stranger anecdotes with a grain of salt when it comes to these 'what is your child reading?' threads.

The 99th percentile isn’t that rare. To state the obvious, in an average elementary school that has 100 first graders, one will be in the 99th percentile. They don’t have to go to special schools for the highly gifted to understand Percy Jackson in the first grade.

Your are so incorrect. That’s not how it works. Goggle it. SMH