• @[email protected]English
    8•1 year ago

    6th grade is what? 10 years old.

    I wouldn’t expect them to be reading War and Peace, but they should be able to easily read The Hobbit or Harry Potter.

    They’re not on Spot the Dog, or putting their fingers under the words as they go.

    • @Chunk
      6•1 year ago

      6th grade in the states is 12-13. 10 years old is about 4th grade.

      • @[email protected]
        4•1 year ago

        6th grade is 11. Unless you have a weird birthday or got held back High School starts around 13-14 years. Maybe you started late? That benefits a lot of kids but most kids graduate highschool at 17/18 not 20.

        • @Metacortechs
          4•1 year ago

          Don’t think so, I have a 9 year old who turns 10 in February in the 4th grade in the US. They’ve never been held back, started at the right time etc. That puts us 8 years from graduation, at 18.

          edit: I’m tired and didn’t read your comment correctly. You are right. We’ll start 6th grade at 11. Leaving so everyone can point and laugh. Sorry!

        • @Chunk
          0•1 year ago

          Or I misremembered. Sometimes your fellow commenters on Lemmy make mistakes.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•1 year ago

        Oh, I was thinking it would be the same as the UK system.

        Even better then. I was reading Lord of the Rings by that age.

        • @Pipoca
          3•1 year ago

          Looking up the lexile scores, LOTR is written at a 5th or 6th grade level. Same with most of the Harry Potter series.

    • Captain Aggravated
      3•1 year ago

      No shade at putting fingers under the words as they go, sometimes with some fonts and especially fine print it can be easy for your eye to jump up or down a line.