Anonymous wrote:My son can read about 80% of the words in one of those Level 1 books. Slowly. This is better than what he could do when he first started kindergarten in September, so I'm not worried. I'm just curious about what other kids are doing right now. I know many of the other kids in his class were reading when they started kindergarten. Is that really the norm?

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Anonymous wrote:I would just say as the parent of older (college aged) kids...don't get too excited either way about your kindergartener's reading ability. Two of our kids were reading at the 2nd ant 3rd grade levels in kindergarten. They graduated from high school as good, but not great students. Another one of our children had absolutely no interest at all in reading. She was definitely not reading in kindergarten. She wasn't really reading on level until second grade. She graduated from high school a National Merit Scholar. Her ACT and SAT scores were insanely nigh. And she is a sophomore in college on a full academic scholarship. Even as a very young toddler, she loved books. She loved to be read to. She loved to look at books. She just had no interest in learning to read until she got older.

Well, this begs the question do you think your younger daughter is more intelligent, or is she simply a more persistant dedicated student. There's a difference in raw ability and execution.