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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teach him to read. There is never a greater age to learn to read than at 4. The child still has lots of time, no formal schoolwork and the time to learn slowly. I taught all my kids to read before K and it pays off when they can read all the instructions for seatwork independently and gain an extra year of reading-to-learn. And all the people who pretend “it all evens out by third grade”, it doesn’t. The kids who were in the highest reading group at 5 stay in that same group (and usually the highest math group) by the time they get picked up in AAP.[/quote]

Not really. Reading is overrated skill for a child entering kindergarten.  What you should absolutely do from the time they are born is to read, read, read to them. They need to know about things and the world - content knowledge - in any language.  Reading will get picked up in school. My kids have always been in magnet and top scorers...but...they had no idea about reading. They both learned in KG.  And they both became independent readers when they were 8 yrs old. All that time, I was the one who was reading to them. Hours upon hours of story time. [/quote]

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