I am interested in any research/links on early non gifted readers. I know a familiy that (because of cultural expectations) spend a ton of time "teaching" there children at home even before Kindergarten and then making sure they are always ahead of the regular school curriculum. These chldren did start reading before school and pretty well. They don't seem to show other classic "gifted" charateristics and school acclerates them eary on because of their early acheivement. Just wondering how common this is and where I could learn more on this subject.
I wonder about this too! So many kids in our kindergarten class had a jump start on reading, either from their parents working with them at home or being in an all day Montessori program that really pushed early reading. It seemed a number of these kids didn't really advance in reading skills after starting kindergarten. By the end of kindergarten, and certainly first grade it was pretty clear who had leveled out and who the gifted readers were.
I really think it's incredibly hard to stereotype (and I'm saying this of as a parent of a late reading HG+ child, of course! It's a complex equation of GTness vs. exposure vs. interest vs. a particular child's learning profile vs. a variety of other factors I'm sure I'm missing!
