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- From: marcy@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca (Marcy Thompson)
- Subject: Re: Teaching kids to read
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.192015.10748@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Surrey, British Columbia, CANADA
- References: <dlhanson.32.727391690@nap.amoco.com> <1993Jan21.222945.6742@digi.lonestar.org> <1993Jan25.175311.28637@spider.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:20:15 GMT
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- In a recent misc.kids article, Alison J Wyld wrote:
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- >In article <1993Jan21.222945.6742@digi.lonestar.org> gpalo@digi.lonestar.org (Gerry Palo) writes:
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- >>I'd just like to make a (non-agressive) plug for the approach taken in Waldorf
- >>education of not teaching children to read before the age of around seven,
- >>approximately when the child looses his or her baby teeth. I won't go into
- >>the deatails, but in practice it works out very well. The children learn to
- >>read better and they develop a life long love of reading. By the sixth or
- >>seventh grade, typical Waldorf classes are reading adult literature, doing
- >>Shakespeare, etc.
- >
- >Heavens. I think I'd have _burst_ if I'd had to wait until I was 7 to
- >read. I learned at 4 (I'm not sure how). I worked out at school
- >that their readers were nothing to do with reading, and skimmed them
- >to please the teacher, while getting proper books out the library. I
- >was a real book snob too - by age 7 I refused everything that didn't
- >say "age 8 plus" on the cover. Which isn't to say that the Waldorf
- >approach isn't a good approach for some kids, I'm sure it is.
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- This is my main question about Waldorf education. What do they do with
- a child who taught herself to read at 4?
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- Marcy
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