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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 3.5-year-old daughter wants to learn so I am doing the teach your child to read in 100 days book. If she loses interest, which I recognize is likely, I will let it go.

I am not going around telling people we are doing this because I recognize it is a controversial topic. [/quote]

OP here. That's why I posted on an anonymous forum, because I know people are weird about it. I think people assume that any parent who does this is just trying to be able to say "my kid learned to read at x age". But I just feel bad when my daughter gets upset because she is trying to "read" her books to her stuffed animals or to herself in bed and can't. It seems like offering her some skills to work on towards reading would be a good way of addressing that frustration. I don't want her to lose interest in books because of this.

We got some BoB books this week and my daughter has really been enjoying them so far. It actually has me thinking that part of the issue is that most of her books are longer and have a lot of words in them. She loves these books and I"m not getting rid of them -- she gets very engaged with the stories and they spur all kinds of conversations and play. But I think we're going to get her more simple books as well, as I think she might enjoy being able to master basic books. I think if she could learn to read her BoB books on her own, she might be satisfied with that until she is a little older and can get more formal instruction.

Mostly I just wanted to make sure I was supporting her interest in reading, especially because she's not going to preschool as planned and therefore isn't be exposed to some of the instruction there that might give her a pathway to reading. [/quote]

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