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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a kid in a one-way immersion program. We don’t speak the language at home (though both parents can understand it at about 75%). No issues with kid learning to read or write in English.

At 10 (3rd grade), they have been exposed to <5000 hrs of the immersion language. Assuming 10-hr days of consciousness since birth on average, that is out of 36,500 hours in English.

Assuming your kid learns typically, do not let this anxiety stop you from giving your kid the absolutely mind-blowing life benefit of being multilingual. Really.[/quote]

Did you work/had to work with your kiddo to teach them how or read in English or did this happen at school in 3rd grade?[/quote]

It happened before 3rd grade. IDK whether our kid would be really regarded as unusual
in this way; I think the warnings about English skills lagging are ass-covering.

We were also told to expect lagging MAP scores. Their 3rd grade fall MAP (administered in English) was 226. This had a corresponding Lexile range of 1090L-1240L (which prompted me to look up Lexile scores).

We didn’t do anything extra, no. 
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Er, my magnet kid who was not in immersion had a MAP-R score of 220 in 3rd grade which was in the 98th percentile.  226 must be >99%.  So, congrats that your kid is an advanced English reader, but this isn't proof of "ass covering" and 99th percentile scores on the MAP-R are not typical for an immersion student or even for a non-immersion student.  
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