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    4 yr. old reads at college level

    This 4-year-old reading prodigy reads COLLEGE LEVEL speech!...

    Preschooler dazzles librarians by reading 1,000 books by age 4
    Jan 14th, 2017 — Reading 1,000 books is no small feat, especially when you’re just in preschool.
    Four-year-old Daliyah Marie Arana loves to read. She dove into the written word much earlier than most — from the time she was 18 months old, she began identifying words on her own, according to the Gainsville Times. “I have two other small children too,” Daliyah’s mom, Haleema Arana, said. “So she’d heard us reading stories to them as well. We would literally read every day, about 15-20 minutes a day.” Just before her third birthday, she read her first book solo. “She wanted to take over and do the reading on her own,” Arana told the Washington Post. “It kind of took off from there. The more words she learned, the more she wanted to read.” While she’s never been officially tested for skill level, Daliyah managed to decipher a college-level speech, the Post reports. A YouTube video of her reading “The Pleasure of Books,” by William Lyon Phelps, has garnered more than 55,000 views.

    Daliyah’s love for books inspired her parents to sign their then-2-year-old up for the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program, which encourages parents to keep track of how many books they’ve read to and with their children in the years leading up to kindergarten. Arana told the Washington Post that it took just a year for her daughter to meet the goal, and that doesn’t even take into account the estimated 1,000 books they’d already read before entering the program. The little girl — who’s already settled on a future career as a librarian — has her own library card at her local branch, according to the Gainsville Times.

    While she’s become a bit of a celebrity in her home town, Daliyah recently grabbed the nation’s attention when she was invited to be the “Librarian for the Day” at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Earlier this week, Carla Hayden — the country’s first female and first African-American national librarian — tweeted photos of Daliyah exploring the largest library in the world. “She just kept saying how the Library of Congress is her most favorite, favorite, favorite library in the whole wide world,” Arana told the Washington Post. Daliyah even offered a few suggestions on how to make the nation’s library even better, asking Hayden to bring in whiteboards to line some of the hallways so kids could practice writing new words, according to the Post.

    Daliyah’s visit may be over, but her dreams have just begun. She plans to read another 500 books before she starts kindergarten this fall, and hopes to be able to teach other kids to love reading as much as she does. “I want to teach other kids to read at an early age, too,” she told the Gainsville Times. So what's the secret to shaping your own tiny reader? Early exposure, according to her mother. “Their little brains are absorbing so much," Arana said. "They’ll just soak it up.” Daliyah will take a break from her books for a few hours this weekend — she’s been asked to recite the “I Have a Dream” speech in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. at an MLK Day celebration in her town, the Post reported.

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    I hope things work out for her. It is going to be hard to get her to fit in. It is going to be hard to challenge her. At least with all the information on the internet maybe her parents and teachers can keep her busy until she is older and can start thinking about college.
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    While quite impressive, reading and comprehension are not the same thing.


    That's illustrated around here all the time.

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    I can "read" French but that certainly does not mean I comprehend what I just read.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shady Slim View Post
    I can "read" French but that certainly does not mean I comprehend what I just read.

    C'est bien, vous semblez être une excellente affiche.

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    bethere wrote: C'est bien, vous semblez être une excellente affiche.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bethere View Post
    C'est bien, vous semblez être une excellente affiche.
    Let's see...something about a celestial being...somebody resembles an excellent fish...well that's just silly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    Let's see...something about a celestial being...somebody resembles an excellent fish...well that's just silly.
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