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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do many really come into Prek reading fluently??[/quote]

No, read the post again. It says K, not pre-K.  A lot happens in a year, so there's a big difference between pre-K and K.

However, many Beauvoir kids CAN read by the time they're in K.   Speaking from experience, my kinder kid entered the year reading at the E level and left reading at M, so there's clearly a lot of growth during that year, too.

In my humble observation, it seems  like [b]more girls than boys enter reading[/b].  The school certainly doesn't push reading in preK, nor would it want parents who pushed their kids to read.  Beauvoir is all about developmental appropriateness and meeting kids where they're at.

Kids will read when they're ready and pushing them actually backfires into making them dislike reading.  Our kids were read to at least an hour a day, sometimes two hours.  There's no screen time in our house, so books are the only passive entertainment available.  I think that's the biggest factor behind their reading earlier than some kids.  They weren't taught, but did start making out sounds and connecting them to short words.  Also, when one kid starts reading, the younger ones catch on a little faster because they want to compete with older one and because older one coaches younger ones.

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Agreed w the above. I have B/G twins just leaving Pre-K and DD has been reading since sometime last fall. DS has shown zero interest until the last couple of weeks. He still doesn't read but is starting the sound things out a bit. For the record, I don't think either trajectory is indicative of their intelligence. They'll get there when they get there.[/quote]

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