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Wood, Patricia F. – Understanding Our Gifted, 2009
There is great pressure on parents to teach children to read as early as possible. In reality, precocious (early advanced) readers seem to almost master the skill on their own, without the assistance of highly touted, commercially available programs. The 18-month-old toddler who names the letters on alphabet blocks; or the 26-month-old who can…
Descriptors: Gifted, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction, Parents
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Bailey, Lora Battle – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2006
The aim of this study was to determine whether the "Frequency with which parents read to their children, Preschool Exposure" and the initial "Age" that students "who are economically at-risk" were first exposed to significant literacy activities at home or in a preschool setting affected their reading grades.…
Descriptors: Gifted Disadvantaged, Early Reading, High Risk Students, Economically Disadvantaged