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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Literally anything she wants.  She has read the entire Percy Jackson series and series made for kids mythology chapter books.

BUT THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

How are her reading test scores/what level does it say on her report card?[/quote]

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OP, you are fine. I had one of these first graders like the Percy Jackson mom. Guess what? By 2nd or 3rd grade, most everyone knows how to read, and nobody cares that your kid used to be the first one reading chapter books. [/quote]

Barring the true cases of 99th percentile IQ highly gifted children who go to special schools for the highly gifted, the 7 year olds supposedly reading Percy Jackson and Harry Potter aren't fully understanding it all. My DD could also "read" such books, as in open the page and say the words without stumbling. But the vocabulary and the situations and the subtle humor went over her head many times. I've only met two kids who really could read-read these books in 1st grade without needing someone to re-explain anything in simpler terms. Always take the anonymous stranger anecdotes with a grain of salt when it comes to these 'what is your child reading?' threads.[/quote]

The 99th percentile isn’t that rare. To state the obvious, in an average elementary school that has 100 first graders, one will be in the 99th percentile. They don’t have to go to special schools for the highly gifted to understand Percy Jackson in the first grade. [/quote]

+1 But also: it evens out by 2nd or 3rd when everyone can read, and then there may be a different set of kids who jump ahead because they are better at comprehension, prediction/inference and "reading to learn" as opposed to learning to read. [/quote]

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