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[quote=Anonymous][quote]As far as reading, parents need to stop focusing so much on levels like it is some video game to be won, and instead worry about how their child's relationship with literacy at each level. Barring disability, our kids are all going to be reading the same things in the later grades. The exact same things, and reading level doesn't matter[/quote]

100% agree with this.  There is no need to send a 5 year old to Kumon for reading.  Reading at this age is about developing a love of books - you should be reading to your child, and encouraging them to find meaning in what you are reading to them.  The decoding will come, and the solo reading fluency will come.  There's no need to rush it.  Neither of my kids could read more than sight words at the end of K, and both are advanced readers in their current grades. You wouldn't send an five month old to walking school, worried that if your child didn't walk before they turned one, they would be behind all of their peers and shut out of life opportunities - why this need to have a 5 yo "reading" independently before K?  [/quote]

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