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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Your preK is not developmentally appropriate if they are expecting four year olds to read and write.[/b] You need to lay off the tiger momness[/quote] +1. If your child is growing up in a highly literate household-- if you model and share a love of reading and talking about books-- there is no need to try to force handwriting and decoding skills earlier. There is no advantage to being able to decode what you cannot understand, in any case, so at this age and earlier my biggest focus is on expanding a child's vocabulary and comprehension through lots of great stories and conversation and questions. This would be my biggest concern at preschool, too: that there are a variety of opportunities throughout the day for your child to be exposed to different experiences that will facilitate her understanding of the things she will learn and read in the future.[/quote]
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