Should We Still Teach Children To Be Literate

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Throughout the years there have been debates about a child’s ability to learn in early childhood, researches and doctors have been focusing this debate on the child’s ability to be literate. These researchers and doctors have been focusing whether a baby, as early as 8 months, can learn to read. Recently, they have decided that babies cannot learn to read due to the fact they are too young. They argue that these babies are indeed learning but that they are just not learning how to read. On the other hand I argue, that babies may be too young to read but that we should still teach them to be literate. While this claim may go against what most researchers and doctors may argue, I still believe that if we continue to teach our children to be

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