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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With exception of dyslexia or other learning issue, I feel like a fairly smart kid would not be able to help learning to read before 10. I am thinking about some stories I have read about kids kept out of school but not actively homeschooled either, with neglectful or abusive parents. They figured out how to read.

I am just kinda thinking this through now -- ok, so there are illiterate adults. But fewer than ever probably? I am thinking - illiterate parents with kids who only went to a few years of elementary before it was required, and also probably super isolated. I don't really know, but it seems like you'd have to be almost trying to keep a kid from learning to read.[/quote]

A majority of the population finds reading intuitive. For this reason, many of us do not have a specific memory of learning to read. It was something we just started to do with a little adult guidance, and we learned it before we were old enough to form stable memories. Roughly 30 percent of children need explicit phonics instruction to start reading a develop into stable readers. Some subset of that 30 percent will receive a dyslexia diagnosis. There are a lot of people who are functionally illiterate from this 30 percent group. You may not know them, but I have worked with them, ages 14 to adult.

While children start reading in K-1, they are not expected to be fluent readers who have multi-syllable-word attack skills, stamina, expressiveness and comprehension until grade 3. If a child has received three years of reading instruction and is not yet fluent, then educators usually suspect a learning disability. Since fluency is expected by grade 3, academic standards shift to expecting “reading to learn” instead of “learning to read” at grade 4.[/quote]

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