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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 66879" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>Two months? Do you know they don't teach reading in some countries -- the Scandinavian countries and some Eastern European ones -- until the children are seven. Reading readiness, as we call it, starts older too. Those countries have high literacy rates. In studies controlled for affluence of the countries, there was some adjusting of the difference, but the end result is regardless of when a child learns to read, any benefits or drawbacks are erased by the time the child is nine. </p><p></p><p>I think what happens when people try to teach kids to read (which is what teaching letters is) young is that they start so young and keep at it so diligently that someone is trying to teach the child when the child is finally ready. Truth be told, until that time, it's all wasted effort on the teacher's part.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 66879, member: 1498"] Two months? Do you know they don't teach reading in some countries -- the Scandinavian countries and some Eastern European ones -- until the children are seven. Reading readiness, as we call it, starts older too. Those countries have high literacy rates. In studies controlled for affluence of the countries, there was some adjusting of the difference, but the end result is regardless of when a child learns to read, any benefits or drawbacks are erased by the time the child is nine. I think what happens when people try to teach kids to read (which is what teaching letters is) young is that they start so young and keep at it so diligently that someone is trying to teach the child when the child is finally ready. Truth be told, until that time, it's all wasted effort on the teacher's part. [/QUOTE]
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