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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, and moulder, so that's three.[/quote]

Ha ha...your 6 year old knows bastard and tawdry?? You're funny[/quote]

Your six year old doesn't? Don't most six year olds know bastard? I certainly did, though I'm sure my parents weren't thrilled.[/quote]

I just asked my 10 year old the words but she didn't know most of them. [/quote]

For Pete's sake!  Children (like adults) vary in a great many ways (including vocabulary).  Whether your child does or doesn't know a vocabulary word/list is not evidence about another child.

Further, it is not necessary to know every word in a book to read it.  In fact, reading is an excellent way to learn new vocabulary.  As an adult reader with a pretty good vocabulary, I still run across new words now and then which I look up and add to my vocabulary.  According to some recommendations on how to pick a "just right" book there should be no more than five unknown words PER PAGE.

People can get value from reading literature on many different levels.  Perhaps a kindergartener won't get as much from reading something at 5 as they would at 7 (or 17 or 70).  It doesn't mean that they won't still get something from it.  I've heard school officials recommend that students study the same material in multiple grades because students can get different experiences from great literature at different ages.  (This always sounded like a great way to bore kids).  Personally,  there are some stories which resonated with me (even if they weren't great literature) that I read many times over the years.  I'm not sure that I appreciated them on deeper levels, they were just beloved friends that I enjoyed visiting.[/quote]

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