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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just find it hard to believe that the majority of kids start Kindergarten "reading".   I think people define "reading" in different ways though.   Some people say their kids are reading when they can sound out a few simple words and some mean their kids can independently read a book.   I can tell you that my five year old is absolutely not reading - not sounding out words.  I hope she isn't too much of an outlier.  I've been told by many that learning to read happens at different ages for all kids and they all seem to catch up to one another by third grade.  We'll see if that's true in our case.[/quote]

OP here.  True, I don't know how people are defining it.  I'm going by what other parents are saying.   The head of school told us that they expect kids to make progress from their initial starting point, but that they don't expect all kids to be able to fully read by the end of kindergarten.  Her own child wasn't reading fluently until the end of 2nd grade, when it suddenly just clicked.  And now she never stops.   There must be a huge variation on skill development.  I just don't know how to identify potential problems.  My brother could read in 3rd grade, but had no ability to comprehend what he was reading.  That's my biggest concern, although it seems to me my son has a clue about what he's reading and relates to it. [/quote]

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