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[quote=Anonymous]Here's the problem.

1) Many students with verbal aptitude who go on to be great readers test-wise begin reading early.  For others it clicks later - some of those go on to be great readers, some of those don't.  LOW SES students often don't. This last sentence is the real problem.

2) People believe that because kids who become great readers often learn early, we should teach everyone as early as possible so everyone will go on to be great readers.  Problem of correlation vs causation.  Great readers have verbal aptitude which means that they read early and go on to be great readers.  Students for whom reading just clicks later will come, through the push of early reading, to see themselves as bad readers - they likely will learn to decode words earlier but will also hate reading and perhaps even school.  Will they overcome this and go on to become great readers - who knows, they do have something else to overcome now. We've made no progress on how to help low ses students, which is the biggest problem.  They may learn to decode words earlier but this doesn't mean they will become great readers 5 years later.[/quote]

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