It does not seem so long ago that Australians were in awe of the so-called Scandinavian approach to reading. The idea was that learning to read did not start until the age of 7. That is fine if ALL students are 7 when they start learning to read. But somehow this morphed into waiting until a child is 7 to take action when a child was struggling. What if your child started school at 5 years of age and turned seven at the end of year 1 or so? Do you still wait and see if they

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