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Home › Articles › Back to School Headquarters › Levels of Giftedness

Levels of Giftedness

How Smart Is My Child?

By Deborah L. Ruf, Ph.D.

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  • They ask you to start easy readers before 5 years, and many figure out how to multiply, divide and do some fractions by 6 years.
  • Most of these children are a full two to five years beyond grade level by age 6 and find school too slow.
  • There are one or two Level Three children in every 100 in the average school. They are rarely in the same elementary class and can feel lonely.
    • Level Four
    • Level Four babies love books, someone to read them and pay attention within a few months of their birth.
    • They are ahead of Level Three children by another two to five months while less than 2 years old.
    • They have extensive, complex speaking by 2 years, and their vocabularies are huge!
    • Most of them read easy readers by 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 years, and then read for information and pleasure by age 5, with comprehension for youth- and adult-level books at about 6 to 6 1/2 years.
    • There are about one per 200 children in the average school. Without special arrangements, they can feel very different from their typical classmates.
    Level Five