When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion

Re:When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion by saberdancer on Monday October 19, 2020 @05:49PM (#24831433)

When is reading taught in the USA? In Europe, first grade is usually when you are 7 years old, so normally that's when it is taught. Sure, nowadays kids tend to learn it earlier but not through organized means.

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Re:When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion by bart_spoon on Monday October 19, 2020 @07:43PM (#24832355)

My daughter started kindergarten this year and they are teaching reading. She’s 5, but she’s among the youngest in her grade, with the older kids having turned 6 already. Keep in mind this is all very simple books in the “See Spot Run” category of difficulty for the most part.

She actually had already started learning some reading at 4 when she was in preschool. It was mostly just sounding out letters but at that point kids can start to sound out simple words too. Preschool is elective though so plenty of kids won’t start that young.

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Re:When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion by perardi on Monday October 19, 2020 @08:48PM (#24832858)

I am getting up there in years, but when I was young, they were also teaching us reading in kindergarten. I can recall, with certainty, these folks…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Letter_People
…and I am fairly sure they had us reading short stories in first grade. (But only fairly certain; I could read short stories halfway through kindergarten, so that could be coloring my recollection.)

turning 25 this week…in base-16.

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Re:When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion by wolfram74 on Monday October 19, 2020 @06:01PM (#24831528)

I was a pretty rubbish reader until 3rd or 4th grade when Legend of the Seven Stars came out for SNES and my sister eventually got tired of reading the dialogue for me. So that would put me in the 10 year old range.

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Re:When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion by Twisol on Monday October 19, 2020 @06:44PM (#24831862)

Sibling of someone like you here -- I absolutely got fed up with reading Animal Crossing dialogue for my sister, and I maintain that's the only reason she finally learned to read.

Motivation is one thing -- necessity is another. If you need it (not just want; literally need it for some reason), you'll have a pretty strong motivation to acquire it. (Or give up. But that's where parental guidance comes in.)

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Re:When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion by sjg007 on Monday October 19, 2020 @08:34PM (#24832720)

My kids reading has really accelerated from playing Roblox. I mean they did read before but they’ve really taken off since. They use Siri to dictate and I surmise they read what she prints. It’s amazing.

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Re:When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion by PeterisP on Monday October 19, 2020 @08:54PM (#24832914)

Europe is quite diverse, where I'm from, kids are expected to be able to read at least a bit when starting the first grade of school at 7. Of course they practice and improve reading in first grade, and not every child can read on day 1, but the expectation is that for almost everyone the basics of reading should be taught already in preschool or at home before that.

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