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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is from 2013. OP's kid is in 3rd grade now. [/quote]

I thought this was an interesting thread and just read all the way through it.  I have one of those kids who started reading at 4, was reading short chapter books in K and is now reading long chapter books in 1st.  I hear a lot about how early reading is detrimental for kids.  I will say that my DS definitely could "read" and decode far beyond what he could comprehend, but that is catching up.  [/quote]

I don't think it's being said that early reading is detrimental, but rather that pushing early reading on a child that is not ready nor pursuing it on their own is detrimental and doesn't foster a natural love of reading.  It becomes a chore.  We didn't do any reading stuff with my kindergarten DD until she started asking for help to read words the summer before school started.  We just read books to her, and she started pointing at some words.  Since she was interested, we got Bob books and did those whenever SHE requested.  She entered K at level 4 and her report card says she's at 13 now.  She was ready to read, and wanted to.  Many kids aren't ready at the same age, and that's totally ok for them.  Pushing them when they aren't ready is detrimental, but allowing a kid, one who wants to learn, to proceed is not.[/quote]

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