Later learning to read has no effect on subsequent academic success.
Scientists from the UK believe that children who started to read at 7 years old, enrolled in school, no worse and no better than their peers who started to study in 4 years.
At what age should begin to teach a child to read, and how it will affect his performance in school compared to other children? British psychologists have decided to compare the literacy skills of children enrolled in regular schools, where you learn to read the age of four and children who went to private schools Steiner, in which the teaching of reading starts with the seven years. According to supporters of the system of Steiner schools, the children should not learn to read and write, yet not Mature emotionally and socially, and then this wisdom will be given to them with greater ease.
According to the observations of scientists, regardless of the training program, students seven years showed the same gains in reading. This means that later learning to read does not give any special advantages, but does not inhibit children’s intellectual development.
“Perhaps, in the system of late teaching children literacy skills and has its advantages, but a big difference in how quickly children learn the basics of reading, depending on the system of education, we noted,” conclude the researchers.
