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[quote=Anonymous]I previously taught elementary school.  In the teacher's lounge one day a colleague was talking to some of the advanced kids about nursery rhymes, how they came about, how some of the authors are unknown, how they are from different cultures, etc.  Many of these advanced kids had no idea of what would be considered typical nursery rhymes that most people should know.  We were saying that some parents push their kids past books that are more appropriate for kids of that age group and as a result miss wonderful literature.  Of course by fourth grade, the kids feel they are too old for that literature.  OP, I'm afraid, will rush her kid past wonderful literature in the "interest" of "challenging" her kid.  Go pick up a Junie B. Jones book.  Plenty "challenging" if your kindergartener is only a DRA of a 16, but not rich literature.  Go to the library and flip through a Junie B. Jones and the flip through some picture books in the children's section.  You'll deprive your child of learning much better vocabulary from those picture books by just looking for longer texts.[/quote]

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