When to Your Child Learn to Read?
Issues surrounding the right time to teach children to read had been a warm conversation. At that time, some argue that it is too early to teach a child to read can be bad for development because it is considered to be burdensome. Those who think like this suggest that children learn to read after they were aged 6-7 years.
However, along with holding of various research and scientific studies, it turns out the child will actually burdened if they are too late to learn to read and studies also show that the age of 6-7 years can be classified into the category of 'too late' is.
Advantages of Learning Reading Since Childhood
How to learn to read before entering elementary school could affect the child's reading achievement in the future? Dolores Durkin is the researcher who first studied this problem in 1958-1964 and held various studies to investigate them. What conclusions can be drawn from the study for 6 years?
Children who can read the early turns can always surpass the reading skills of children who are late, up to the level of junior high school The ability to read from an early age was not associated with a child's IQ, but is closely connected with home and family atmosphere. Children who can read the early turns emerging from families who have attention and extra effort in helping them learn to read. The ability to read from an early age is also not related to the socio-economic conditions. Children who can read early on proved to have parents who are willing to take the time for reading activities with their children, although the socio-economic background they are different.
Durkin also found that children who learned to read at the age of 3-4 years, it has always outperformed other children who learned to read at the age of 5-6 years. They could even continue to excel until the time span of 8 years.