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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My grandmother was a reading specialist and had a lot to do with teaching me.  I can't remember the techniques she might have used but she had tons of educational materials around all the time.  I'm pretty sure I could read by the time I started kindergarten but I definitely remember improving my reading skills in the first grade.  What I noticed with DS is that despite the use of phonemic awareness, phonics etc., reading had to click for him.  It clicked last year early in the first grade.  He could read to some degree in kindergarten, but it didn't come naturally.  Now that it has clicked, he's seems to be a pretty confident and strong reader.  When he encounters words he doesn't know, he's often able to sound them out.  His experience versus my experience just showed me how people pick these things up at different times, in different ways. [/quote]

Just FYI, this "clicking" you refer to is, I believe, the ability to blend and segment phonemes.

It is an ability that develops over time.  Some children develop it earlier and others, later. Most develop it by age 6-7, although some develop it as early as age 3 and 4!  And others, (the severely disabled) not until ages 10 or later.

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