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In a message dated 12/8/2001 7:44:54 AM Eastern Standard Time,
puddles@... writes:


> Maybe it's the kid's more natural time-clock to read at 10 or 12 than at
>

I think this may very well be true, albeit there will be lots of variations
on this. But I wonder too Sarah. . . if truly left to their own desires about
things, what the "normal" age range would be for reading. What I did do with
Lelia was read with her, read road signs with her (because she asked) and we
would send notes back and forth to each other when I was working at my desk
and she was playing at hers. We never had anything special really, except
lots of books around all the time. She started reading pretty well at 8. I
suspect Quinton will read much earlier, although that is a guess at this
point, just based on observations. Food for thought though.

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On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 08:05:27 EST lite2yu@... writes:
> I think this may very well be true, albeit there will be lots of
variations
> on this. But I wonder too Sarah. . . if truly left to their own
desires about
> things, what the "normal" age range would be for reading

My experience with reading and unschooled kids is different... almost all
of the unschooled girls we know have been reading fluently by 6 or 7, and
by 8 they've all been reading books that are well above the traditional
school expectations. Now, most of the boys haven't been fluent readers
until later, say 8 or 9 typically. Of course, there are exceptions, but
that's the general trend I've seen. The youngest I knew was 2, the oldest
was 12 or 13 when he started reading.

Now, I only know of one or two unschooled kids who were writing at "grade
level" when they were 7-9 or so... most seem to pick that up a lot later,
which seems to be natural to me... schools push writing early because
they need a quick way to judge a child's work or knowledge, and it's
easier to look at 25 worksheets than talk to 25 kids...

And my experience with unschooled kids and math is that they all seem to
do it differently..

Dar
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On Saturday, December 8, 2001, at 03:26 PM, freeform@... wrote:

>
> Now, I only know of one or two unschooled kids who were writing at
> "grade
> level" when they were 7-9 or so... most seem to pick that up a lot
> later,
> which seems to be natural to me... schools push writing early because
> they need a quick way to judge a child's work or knowledge, and it's
> easier to look at 25 worksheets than talk to 25 kids...
>
> Dar

I totally agree Dar. This is exactly what I was referring to when I
brought up the subject of unschooling kids failing standardized tests.

Mimi
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