I was an avid reader growing up. I consistently tested several grade-levels above my age bracket, and left teachers puzzled as to what to hand me next. In fact, my first exposure to Dickens came from a ninth grade teacher who was running out of books to challenge me with and resorted to raiding the "bookroom" in my high school where the class sets were kept. As a strong reader, my mom had to be particularly diligent in checking the content of whatever books I brought home, checking to make sure that the subject wasn't beyond my understanding. Not to say that reading about teen experiences as a kid would cause me specific harm, but my mom firmly believed that there was plenty of time for me to read about those experiences when they were closer at hand, and I could fully understand what I was reading about. In other words, just because your seven-year-old can read
Reading Beyond Grade Level
Reading Beyond Grade Level
Reading Beyond Grade Level
I was an avid reader growing up. I consistently tested several grade-levels above my age bracket, and left teachers puzzled as to what to hand me next. In fact, my first exposure to Dickens came from a ninth grade teacher who was running out of books to challenge me with and resorted to raiding the "bookroom" in my high school where the class sets were kept. As a strong reader, my mom had to be particularly diligent in checking the content of whatever books I brought home, checking to make sure that the subject wasn't beyond my understanding. Not to say that reading about teen experiences as a kid would cause me specific harm, but my mom firmly believed that there was plenty of time for me to read about those experiences when they were closer at hand, and I could fully understand what I was reading about. In other words, just because your seven-year-old can read