Age of Reading?

[Agelastus]

Over here when "I was a lad", infants school was for three years (age 4-7), Junior school was for four years (7-11) and then you toddled off to a Secondary School for five to seven years (11-16/18.)

7 years at comp? Blimey...
It should be that way but I've never came across it. I suppose in giant schools with their own sixth form it may be. For me it was secondary until 16 then off to sixth form college until 18.

Also junior and infants were just differnet ends of the same primary school building in my school and they were the same in most schools in the area.

My town (split by an A road that they bulldozed through the old town centre in the Sixties, I believe) has a combined infants/Junior school for the kids from one side of the road, and a separate Infants school and separate Junior School for the kids on the other side of the Road (the larger part of the town, with the older schools/school buildings.) I lived in the larger, and as we all thought as kids, "better side of the road."

The local Comprehensive was built with a catchment area of two towns and several villages, so its quite a large affair, thus the sixth form capacity. It is also now apparently calling itself a Community College, to my disgust (the word College is being degraded beyond belief these days.)

[crazy canuck]

I thought my oldest was reading early.  He would turn the pages and read aloud.  But really he had just memorized the story from the times I read it to him.   I really cant remember for sure what ages my kids started reading or when I did.  I am just happy they developed the same love of reading that their parents have.

[katmai]

I was never that delayed in my learning.

I think of you as cc, not CC.  I think of Banana as CC, whom I should really think of as DSB now.  In conclusion, nick changing BLOWS. 

The only thing I know about your childhood is that you drank like a whole tanker truck full of milk every day. 

I keep forgetting what DSB/CC's nic on Kapland was... 

He had a few. But mainly ShameonMe

[Malthus]

I thought my oldest was reading early.  He would turn the pages and read aloud.  But really he had just memorized the story from the times I read it to him.   I really cant remember for sure what ages my kids started reading or when I did.  I am just happy they developed the same love of reading that their parents have.

From what I can see, that's a stage in the learning to read process - i.e., memorizing or guessing at the meaning of words.

You know the kid is reading when s/he starts puzzling through unfamiliar words, phonetically.

I think kids learn to love reading by being read to; certainly Carl loves his story-time! We bribe him my asking that he read a (very short) reader story to us, then we read a couple of stories to him. He doesn't (yet) love reading himself, but he loves being read to enough to do some reading to get it.

[Ed Anger]

I can't wait to read Gor to my son. 

[DontSayBanana]

He had a few. But mainly ShameonMe

Oh, no you don't.  A certain Mr. M. Butt and C.C.R. were the ones with all the socks, not me.  I just got access to Kain's account because he and I were always hanging out then and he thought it'd be funny to stir the pot a bit.  I'm strictly one account per board; besides, I couldn't act well enough that you wouldn't immediately know it's me.

Anyway, 3-4 years, not two weeks, Cal.  While Ed may have gone to Kindergarten early, I was more prone to rebutting the teacher asking me why I wasn't doing the work with the class with "read it, not interested".

First book that I can remember reading was a junior version of Return of the Jedi.

[katmai]

I didn't say you had multiple accounts, just different screen names, you dork.
Or did you forget the Captain Carrot nick that Caliga remembers you from.

[DontSayBanana]

I didn't say you had multiple accounts, just different screen names, you dork.
Or did you forget the Captain Carrot nick that Caliga remembers you from.

Did you miss the "per board?"

Kapland: ShameOnMe.
Old Board: Captain Carrot.
New Board: DontSayBanana.

Next thread about: math aptitude?

[Ed Anger]

I HAD TWO (2) SOCKS. THAT'S IT. I ALSO DIDN'T CREATE THE YTMND WITH THE DOG.

[Grey Fox]

No, that was Caliga.

[katmai]

I HAD TWO (2) SOCKS. THAT'S IT. I ALSO DIDN'T CREATE THE YTMND WITH THE DOG.

Whatever Lettow

[Ed Anger]

I HAD TWO (2) SOCKS. THAT'S IT. I ALSO DIDN'T CREATE THE YTMND WITH THE DOG.

Whatever Lettow

MEW Sirrah, MEW.

[DontSayBanana]

To be fair, the only socks that actually stand out in my memory are Giuseppe and Fluffy.

[HisMajestyBOB]

What is concerning for us is that Carl was born in mid December, making him the youngest one in his class. His cousin, born three weeks later, is the oldest one in her class - born early January.

A year makes a big difference at this age.

I'm mid-December, and was always a few months older than everyone else. Made me feel better than them.

I started reading early, but I don't know what age. At least 4, since that's when I started using my dad's Apple II GS.

[merithyn]

In Illinois, you cannot start kindergarten unless you turn five prior to the first day of the fall semester. MOST kids attend preschool for at least one year (usually two) prior to going to kindergarten. If they don't, they spend the first half of kindergarten in "special" classes to help them catch up. By the end of kindergarten, children are expected to be able to sight-read a list of 20 or so words, know their alphabet (capital and small letters), count to 100, and handle sitting in a classroom for X amount of time without interrupting things. If they can't do these things (and don't have an Individual Education Plan, aka IEP), they can't go on to first grade.

This is the grade most likely to be repeated for kids since it has the least affect on them socially. After this, social promotion becomes much more likely.

By the way, those milestones used to be first grade end-of-year goals. Things changed about 25 years ago when preschool became expected.

EDIT: I should point out that kids are not required to attend school until first grade. Those students who do not do so until then are usually at such a disadvantage (unless they were homeschooled) that they are placed back into Kindergarten anyway.