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Reply to "Post going around saying kids don’t need to learn how to read until 10 or 13? "
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[quote=Anonymous]I haven't seen it, but I've seen sort of this idea in wings of the homeschooling community. That's not supposed to be a knock against homeschooling - the homeschoolers I know are great and this is the kind of scary niche thing that gives homeschooling a bad name. I can sort of get the idea that read-alouds and audiobooks will help kids up to a point even if they can't read well, but moms patting each other on the back saying, "it's OK if your fourth grader listens to audio books and just follows along in the printed text, it will click eventually" isn't helping any one. Plus neuroscience shows there is so much more that goes on in reading silently to oneself than listening to a text. Yes, reading aloud is important and great, but not the be-all end-all. I think it has less to do with not being bothered to educate their kids (though those scary parents exist too) and more to do with not being willing to seek outside help when it's truly needed.[/quote]
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