Nancy Young

We know there are risk factors, but we always want to be looking for the children to move them along as quickly as we can.

Exactly, exactly.

Now, you asked another question to do with that chapter because I went off on a tangent.

It was, oh, typical age.

So, yeah, it really varies.

Maybe, you know...

I guess you would say the expectation for the average child is that they're going to start learning the foundational skills in order to become a reader.

If they're not already reading, they would start to learn that when they're five.

It varies.

Some people say you shouldn't start teaching any foundational skills until they're six.

Some people say you can start teaching them when they're four.

So there's not a real perfect age.

I would say that there are many foundational skills that can be taught as soon as they're in some sort of schooling in a very fun way.

We don't want to pressure children, and I think that's the biggest thing is we don't want to force them to be doing something that seems boring, that seems difficult.

We want...

fun ways to learn through enjoyment.

And then some children, and again, within any of those settings, you could have a group of children and a teacher would notice and parents would notice, you know, in their neighborhood, some children, if they weren't already reading when they started school, some children will get it very quickly and some won't.

will clearly be taking longer, and that's where, oh, they're going to need more support.

And so really we have to keep moving forward those who learn more quickly and not give them what they don't need because it's delaying their opportunity to learn what they do need.

Yes.