Is Your Child Ready to Read? A checklist mothering/community/a/is-your-child-ready-to-read-a-checklist From Mothering magazine, a look at what truly develops reading readiness in children - it may be just what you think - or not! “Child psychologist David Elkind has devoted his professional life at Tufts University to studying the costs of “hurrying” children. He points out that true reading readiness only emerges once a child has attained the neuro-cognitive milestone of syllogistic reasoning (“All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; thus Socrates is mortal”), which dawns during the concrete operational stage of cognitive development. . . . “We wisely recognize that biology has its own internal timeline, but where neurobiology is concerned, well, that’s a different animal. We get anxious. We want to get in there and... tinker and tweak... optimize... accelerate... give them a head start. So we reach for the flashcards.”
Posted on: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 20:33:40 +0000
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