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David Hornsby

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Children are not helped by reading too early

By Learning, Literacy

Bethan Marshal, King’s College London, www.independent.co.uk.  The age at which we start learning to read:  In Sweden you will be at least seven, in Germany possibly the same, and in Finland you may be as old as eight.  In England you’ll be six and in Australia you will be five!   We are obsessed with the age at which you can decode those specks on a page of print and…

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