Teaching toddlers to read at 3 no better than at 5 |
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London, June 8 ANI: Kids who are taught to read at a very young age perform no better by the age of 5 than those who begin to read later, a new Brit study reveals. Research from the Office for National Statistics ONS will reinforce calls for the under-5 curriculum to be reformed in order to bring England into line with mainland Europe, where children learn through play until the age of 6. It found that in a sample of the results of 7,000 five-year-olds "on average . . . early years education had no impact on any of the outcome measures", reports The Times. The study demonstrated that although children from the lowest socioeconomic groups did slightly better at the age of 5 if they had learnt to read and write from a very young age, the finding was only 90 per cent reliable - too low to be statistically credible. Overall, children who had been taught letters, numbers and how to read simple words under the age of 3 on average did no better at putting names to pictures or at spotting patterns at the age of 5 than those who had not had formal training. ANI Posted by aniin on Tuesday Jun 08 reply Comments |
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