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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Building vocabulary through reading would only kick in much, much later--after a child is reading fluently.  I would suggest not until fourth or fifth grade.  Even then, the spoken development of vocabulary is much more influential on its development.[/quote]

What????  Even prior to K, when I was growing up, we were learning both reading and vocabulary through things like the Richard Scarry books - learning words associated with different professions, about different kinds of vehicles, construction equipment, wild animals and farm animals et cetera.  This kind of thing, with thematic picture books, along with phonics-based approaches to learning how to connect spoken and written word, is how tens of millions of kids have for decades built up vocabulary and reading skills.  By 4th grade the only issue DC had was in trying to figure out not the reading or understanding, but the right way to pronounce words that were foreign words, or words not in common usage and vernacular, like technical/scientific terms or the name of an ancient Persian dynasty he read about in a DK Eyewitness or Kingfisher book.

Seems to me you're taking a much sloooooower track with far lower expectations of what kids are actually capable of.[/quote]

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