Reading and writing: do early readers burn out?
From: winters_diana Date: Mon Apr 12, 2004 5:24 am Subject: Reading and writing: do early readers burn out? Patrick: It is my experience, again from 20 years of teaching, that children who have early reading instruction may tire of reading and find it uninteresting after grade 5. Nonsense. This is another cherished Waldorf legend. I’ve never heard anyone claim this outside of Waldorf. It is convenient for scaring parents away from the other, bad schools where children are “pushed.” I learned to read early (at least by Waldorf standards) and am a lifelong voracious reader. I wonder if you know of any documentation for this claim or if it is just another one of those things Waldorf teachers assure one another, and assure parents, is true. (Kinda like the “fastest growing educational movement,” for which we have Daniel’s assurance that some people he knows who’ve been in the movement for awhile have told him so.) Something is certainly wrong if a child reads well, and yet “finds it uninte
