> > >But do we really need to be teaching 2 year-olds how to read, write, and perfrom arithmatic? I don't think so.
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> > That's right about when I started to learn to read. Writing and math came later (writing when I was 5, math when I was in first grade).
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> > -Faux "I might have been three when I started to read" Pas
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> Just figured I'd put my two cents in.
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> I started to read when I was 2 1/2. I wrote a five-page story--outside of school--when I was 7 or 8. Last year, I got 800 on the verbal section of the SAT. (I missed a couple of questions, actually, but those apparently didn't count...) You can probably tell that I am of the same opinion as most of the others here: The sooner a child starts to learn, the better.
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> Saku"Never misses a chance to brag ^_~"ra

This sounds... well, sort of... like me. I think I started a tiny bit later. I'm told that I was reading something at about four, and when someone thought that I knew the story from hearing and was just parroting what I had heard, mom pointed out that I had never heard it before. No, I don't remember what book it was. ^_^

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