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[quote=Anonymous]I am shocked at the number of people who remember that they could read at 4!  This just seems way, way unusual to me.

Back in the day, when I went to kindergarten, I knew how to say the alphabet orally, but that's all.  When I got to kinderg., I learned to visually identify the letters and to write my name.  No one read in kindergarten.  We had 2.5 hrs. which included recess, snack and rest time.  We played and had stories and met the "letter people" (which were blow-up letters that had a story for each letter -- i.e. Mr. T -- tall teeth.).  When I went to first grade, we learned to read with Dick and Jane (really!).  And my parents never sat with me to read at home.  Everything we learned was in school (for reading; spelling was practiced at home in later grades).  We did small groups of 8-10 kids and we did choral reading and individual reading.  When we were having our group, we did phonics worksheets.

I was always in the top group.  I don't remember all of my standardized test scores, but I know when I was in 6th grade, my Iowa Test of Basic Skills reading level was 12th grade.

I wish they would get rid of stations/centers in first grade (kindergarten is o.k.) and put more effort into reading with the teacher in small groups.  I suspect my child would have gotten a lot more out of doing phonics worksheets than doing stations/centers.  And it sure would have been nice if he met with a small group and the teacher more than once a week.  The modern way does not seem better to me.  When I was in first grade, I probably met with the teacher at least three times a week in my 8-10 person reading group.

Seems like first graders today are expected to teach themselves to read during "reading" class (not going to happen) or their parents have to teach them to read at night.

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