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(08-20-2010, 12:32 AM)TomGuycott Wrote: I have to say, they're about 2000 times more capable with words than I was at second grade.
I got pokemon red in Second Grade. By that point I could recite all 151 pokemon By heart and spell all of their names and types correctly. (If I remember correctly i turned 6 in Kindergarden, 7 in 1st, and 8 in second and I got pokemon red for my 8th birthday) I also passed 2nd grade with flying colors so obviously having a hobby of pokemon didn't interfere with my school work.
I'm sorry but our education system is failing if second graders can't even spell Pokemon's names correctly.
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just putting it out there that i taught myself to read before kindergarten and was reading chapter books years in advance of the average age
i was reading and writing on a college level back in middle school
not joking
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08-20-2010, 01:12 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-20-2010, 10:42 AM by Tea.)
My brother is 7 and is fine with all the spellings and stuff.
And i was fine with it when i was 7 and stuff.
And i'm doing fine.
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(08-20-2010, 01:12 AM)Vipershark Wrote: just putting it out there that i taught myself to read before kindergarten and was reading chapter books years in advance of the average age
i was reading and writing on a college level back in middle school
not joking
Oh hey this is me. Except I hated writing because I'd get major writers block all the time that didn't disappear until my junior year in high school.
There wasn't much to do at my house as a little kid so I'd read my mom's thriller type of murder mystery books. Of course I never understood what was going on but it caused me to have a larger vocabulary then most kids in my grade (Mainly because I'd go up to my mom and asked what a word meant. I could pronounce them all just fine for the most part too.)
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(08-20-2010, 01:12 AM)Tea Wrote: And i was fine with int when i was 7 and stuff.
Clearly not.
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(08-20-2010, 10:17 AM)ThePoopPupu Wrote: (08-20-2010, 01:12 AM)Tea Wrote: And i was fine with int when i was 7 and stuff.
Clearly not.
fffff
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(08-20-2010, 01:12 AM)Vipershark Wrote: just putting it out there that i taught myself to read before kindergarten and was reading chapter books years in advance of the average age
i was reading and writing on a college level back in middle school
not joking
and now your watching anime. how do you feel
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(08-20-2010, 11:00 PM)pikachu diamonds Wrote: (08-20-2010, 01:12 AM)Vipershark Wrote: just putting it out there that i taught myself to read before kindergarten and was reading chapter books years in advance of the average age
i was reading and writing on a college level back in middle school
not joking
and now your watching anime. how do you feel
quite good actually, thanks for asking
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video games taught me to read english as a baby, anime taught me to speak japanese as a man-baby
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08-21-2010, 11:28 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-21-2010, 11:30 AM by Cshad.)
I got Pokemon Red when I was four, (and pokemon stadium when I was five) so I learned how to read that way
I wish my little sister had not put Pokemon Red on top of a lamp without me noticing and then let it melt ):
