I was taught to read fluently before school. We were forced to read altogether as a class and I had to slow down to quacking peers, which was soul crushing experience.
If you can teach your kid to read before starting school, you should absolutely do that. It's a thin line dividing "thrilling, challenging drive toward mastery" and "soul-crushing cycle of tiny failures in front of peers." Reading is too important to be subject to these traumashttps://twitter.com/tjrwriting/status/1204534042554748929 …
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kids should learn to read before kindergarten
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It took me forever to read a clock with dials as a kid. That was embarrassing enough. I was also timid about reading and my pace in school. I'd have to re-read and re-read lines because it would start to jumble together in my vision
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If your kid wants to. My older son essentially taught himself to read just before his 4th birthday, with enthusiastic support from his parents. My older son is six and a half and wants to draw and build and gives few shits about words. I’m not going to force-feed reading to him.
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Kids should not be pressured or coerced into learning anything and school should be voluntary
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Who is like “don’t learn that now kiddo, that’s school’s job” with their children?
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