at the school i send my children they dont learn to read and write until they are 7 and this works really well as by this age they are ready and eager to learn and while obiously there are still those that struuggle, the majority learn really fast. saying that both my two learned to write their names by about age 4 off their own backs. my dd1 took a while with her reading and writing,having slight dislexic tendancies. she is 10 now and has only just become confident in both. where as my ds ...