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If you can't read, or read poorly, you cannot be a high academic achiever. Reading (prolific) to a child teaches how to read, and that reading is important & wo
by ctdonath 12y ago
If you can't read, or read poorly, you cannot be a high academic achiever. Reading (prolific) to a child teaches how to read, and that reading is important & worthwhile - leading to voracious intake of academic material.
It may not cause high academic achievement, but high academic achievement is unlikely without it.
- pc86 12y agoIt's somewhat similar to the parenting book analogy used in (I think) Freakonomics, isn't it? It's not the fact that a parent buys parenting books that makes them a good mother or father. It's the fact that they're the type of parent who would buy those books, who cares about their children, etc, that makes them a good mother or father.
- nevi-me 12y agoAt 4-5 I could read two languages fluently (at the rate of a typical 7-8 year-old), having been taught phonetics for both languages. There were a lot of words I didn't know, but I could at least look them up in the dictionary. > Reading (prolific) to a child teaches how to read ... So even though I wasn't read at a lot as a child, I was taught how to do it myself. Inquisitiveness goes a long way with a child. I started doing crosswords at 6-7, and that taught me other skills etc. TL;DR, I agree that you can't be a high academic achiever if you can't read well.