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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are some really bitter people here who just want to put down a parent.

No, there will not be other kids like her, if she truly is as described.

I've had two kids go through kindergarten and there literally was not another kid who could read fluently and independently until second grade. My oldest was reading at third grade level (yes, and comprehending, independently, for hours) and also several grades ahead in maths by age 4 - self taught. Whatever DCUM likes to say it's simply not true that there are tons of kids like that in every class. Every teacher he ever had told me that they had never taught a child like him. Most kids are just starting to read - slowly - in k and are barely beginning in first grade. A kid who can independently read and understand Harry Potter at just turned six, for example is way out of the norm.

This was several years ago now, but now that my younger child is also past those early grades and has learned on the same timeline as her classmates it has become clearer to me how completely different my oldest was from all the other kids in his class.

OP, yes, you should mention it to the teacher, if, for example your child is quiet and it won't quickly become clear. Otherwise she'll work it out.[/quote]

My child was in a small private. Every kid was reading at least a couple levels above grade in K. Mine was reading at 5th grade. It doesn’t seem that odd for this area.[/quote]
To both pp’s points, my dd is an advanced reader. At the beginning of 1st she was assessed at a 5th grade level. To hear parents talk, you’d think so was half the class. But dd was in a reading group alone, and her teacher told me she asked all the other teachers for a first grade peer and there wasn’t one. By the end of the year, she had one other child in her group. And also just for kicks: she got 3’s in reading until the 4th quarter. Lol. [/quote]

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