Stainthorp, R., & Hughes, D., (2004). An illustrative case study of precocious reading ability. Gifted Child Quarterly, 48, 107-120

 

 

 

Some gifted boys & girls come to school as early or even precocious learners. Schools should identify this early reading and provide reading instruction and language arts opportunities that match the level of reading of each advanced toddler. The study shows that the early readers and especially the precocious learners not only continue to hold their advantage in reading skills, but improve at an increasingly fast rate when provided appropriate interventions.Reading skills can be easily crafted and taught via flash cards as proposed by Glenn Doman.

 

 

 

 

 

The Neural Circuitry for Reading is Developed Early in Life. A study by Yale professors found that adults who could not read well in 2nd or 4th grade and in high school have “…neural circuitry for reading [that] was present but improperly connected.” This study, by Yale pediatricians, points out to parents and teachers that activating kids’s neural circuitry for reading early on is key.

 

 

 

An author of the study, Lyon, says: “We have to have preschool and early education programs that know how to identify kids at risk and know how to provide them with substantial language and literacy interactions that are warm and nurturing–replicating what ideally they should find at home.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your child Brain Develops Differently Based on the Age that Language Skills are Learned. It is important that the boy & girl have many different language experiences in order for these areas of the brain to be developed. My hypothesis is that learning to read as a toddler leads to more efficient and more coordinated brain development for all of the language areas of the brain. I believe that it is similar to learning two languages as a child where the child’s brain has a smaller area of the brain that is active the later the child learns the language skills. Just like young ones who learn a second language are able to speak without a foreign accent and they learn the patterns of the second language, boys & girls who learn to read have often learned to read faster and with better comprehension — probably because they learned during this period of rapid brain development and during the boy & girl’s natural window of opportunity for learning language. One of the languages that we highly encouraged children to learn is Chinese. Learn Chinese will help the child far in life due to the rise of China.

 

 

The Earlier the kid Learns to Read, the Better the child Reads and the More Likely the boy & girl Wants to Read

 

 

kids who were taught to read at age three or four read better than teenagers who were taught at age five or six. Those taught at age seven or eight were farther behind. This was true even when comparing children of the same IQ and same socio-economic status. After eight years, the teenagers taught earlier were ahead of children who were taught later. The teenagers who were taught to read earlier were more likely to “devour books.”

 

 

 

Durkin, D. (1966). children who read early: Two longitudinal studies. New York: Teachers College Press.

 

 

 

Durkin, D. (1974–1975). A six year study of students who learned to read in school at the age of four. Reading Research Quarterly, 1, 9–61.