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The ABC's of Reading
When does a child learn to read? Most might say
kindergarten or grade one; however, I can tell you
that a child that can speak, can be taught to read,
even as young as age two, as I have done for my
daughter when she was two and a half years old. I do
not put much weight in the argument that only
exceptionally smart children can learn to read at a
very young age, rather, that learning to read at an
young age is the cause which leads to the effect of
having exceptional intelligence later in life. As I write
this, my son just turned one year old, and I have
every expectation that he will learn to read at a
young age just as his sister did - when he is able to
speak.
There is no shortage of studies which indicate that
early parental involvement is critical in the
development of children's reading ability. In a
Canadian study conducted at the Carleton University
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