miakosamuio: staticstart: These books are totally too big for six year olds. I didn’t even like it (at first) when I read it when I was eight. That’s not to say that I decide all things six year olds like but I mean, they wouldn’t have understood a word of it. My sister is six and she’s read chapters of PS before. Just because you wouldn’t have understood doesn’t mean other people are lying. If Alexi Sherman can read the Grapes of Wrath in kindergarten, then it is possible for a six year old to read a Harry Potter book. I doubt very many have done so at six (unless their parents have read it to them as  bed time story - which in my mind does not count). Regardless you shouldn’t limit the things a person can do just because they happen to be smarter than you.
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miakosamuio:

staticstart:

These books are totally too big for six year olds. I didn’t even like it (at first) when I read it when I was eight. That’s not to say that I decide all things six year olds like but I mean, they wouldn’t have understood a word of it.

My sister is six and she’s read chapters of PS before. Just because you wouldn’t have understood doesn’t mean other people are lying.

If Alexi Sherman can read the Grapes of Wrath in kindergarten, then it is possible for a six year old to read a Harry Potter book.

I doubt very many have done so at six (unless their parents have read it to them as  bed time story - which in my mind does not count). Regardless you shouldn’t limit the things a person can do just because they happen to be smarter than you.

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  1. erised-redvines reblogged this from absurd-redvines
  2. weird-psyence reblogged this from ara-hamako and added:
    I was in about… 3rd or 4th grade when I picked up my first Harry Potter book. Then again, I read on a middle/high school...
  3. ara-hamako reblogged this from jackalkenpo and added:
    I don’t remember exactly how old I was when I first started, but I DO remember that I wanted that first book very badly...
  4. jackalkenpo reblogged this from gamefuelpowered and added:
    Dude, same. I read my first when I was eight(though it was the Goblet of Fire and was not the best choice for me but...
  5. pkmnpttr reblogged this from harrypotterconfessions and added:
    We’re just awesome that way.
  6. lunarknight reblogged this from dream-on17
  7. theshamblehouse reblogged this from apiphile and added:
    I’m aware i’m an autistic with a specialism for English, but they aren’t that hard. My mum read them to me as a bed time...
  8. nothingbutthedreams reblogged this from apiphile and added:
    I was eight I think but I’d already read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by that point and other books of...
  9. apiphile reblogged this from cuddlywares and added:
    I mean I probably shouldn’t bring up Juliet reading War and Peace at 3 because she is an exception and I can’t say shit...
  10. liliesandorchids reblogged this from leadyouthroughthedangers and added:
    My mother taught me to read when I turned four. I was reading short chapter books before I started school eighteen...
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  14. daniellaautumnn reblogged this from thisrockandrollrefugee and added:
    the first one when I was seven. I’ve been reading since I around my 4th birthday, some people can read better than...
  15. thisrockandrollrefugee reblogged this from theresmilkinthetardis and added:
    it at six. Then again, I’m an absolutely fantastic reader, and always have been.
  16. mediokrek reblogged this from outinthetwilight and added:
    I read it when I was 8. Nothing impressive though, I was reading much more complicated things by that point. I’ve been...
  17. mars-addict reblogged this from g4llowscalibrator and added:
    I read the first book when I was about 6 I think. I know it was like 1st or 2nd grade. I’ve always been a really...
  18. letsplaypretendtoday reblogged this from cheesewithyourwhine and added:
    Yeah I was seven. In third grade. Cassie was six when she started them… Whoever originally posted this is kind of dumb...
  19. outinthetwilight reblogged this from thetransposingdoor and added:
    We started listening to the books on tape in 2000 (when I was 6 years old). I understood everything, and I read along...
  20. thetransposingdoor reblogged this from theresmilkinthetardis and added:
    my dad read the first three to me as bedtime stories. COME AT ME.
  21. theresmilkinthetardis reblogged this from aro-rusco and added:
    correction: my mom read them to me when i was 6.
  22. pianowireheartstrings reblogged this from vampire-slayer and added:
    Sorry, but I was five when I was reading chapters on my own. And yes, I did understand them easily. They’re written for...
  23. hollowshadowwolf reblogged this from miakosamuio and added:
    I was four or five when they first came out and I read em…know how….My Mum read them to me ‘til I could read them...
  24. g4llowscalibrator reblogged this from merlinpendragon and added:
    I was taught from the beginning that books were magical and that if I can, I should always read them. I read the first...
  25. cheesewithyourwhine reblogged this from aro-rusco and added:
    Uhhhm… I think I was six or seven. I know I’d read Goblet of Fire a gazillion times by third grade.
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  27. vampire-slayer reblogged this from miakosamuio and added:
    ^ What she said. I read the first book right after my eighth birthday and I did understand it. I don’t think it’s ~that...
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  29. betrayedbythebooty reblogged this from miakosamuio and added:
    I understood it perfectly when I was six. I was a Harry Potter reading machine…
  30. magnifikat reblogged this from madamekafufski and added:
    My big sister read them to me when I was really young. I don’t know how old I was, but she used to read them until I...
  31. meghin reblogged this from title-optional and added:
    I started reading when I was three-and-a-half. I was pronouncing the scientific name of insects correctly at that age as...
  32. pattsy reblogged this from needsmorevideogames and added:
    When I was 6 I did at test which said I was reading at the level of the average 9 or 10 year old, so bite me, it’s...
  33. title-optional reblogged this from miakosamuio and added:
    If Alexi Sherman can read the Grapes of Wrath in kindergarten, then it is possible for a six year old to read a Harry...
  34. drrndreaming reblogged this from foxandfoxy and added:
    I learned how to read when I was three, and was capable of reading the first Harry Potter when I was six. The first book...
  35. drakena reblogged this from madamekafufski and added:
    You must not know a lot of kids. My favorite books back then were my grandpa’s encyclopedias and dictionaries. And it...
  36. petrovafabrays reblogged this from albuspercivalwulfric and added:
    I agree with some of the other posts above, just because you couldn’t understand it at that age doesn’t mean everyone...
  37. breaking--point reblogged this from albuspercivalwulfric and added:
    Started reading them at 8 >.
  38. madamekafufski reblogged this from albuspercivalwulfric and added:
    I think I may have been seven when I read it myself, but I don’t know how young I was when my sister read them to me....