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[quote=Anonymous]We have always had a lot of books in the house, read to our kids often, go to the library often, kids see us reading our own books. We never ever explicitly tried to teach our kids to read (never worked on phonics or had them try to sound out words or quizzed them on letters/sight words) but both kids started reading at age 4. With both kids at first we figured they had just memorized and were reciting from memory books we had read to them often but with each kid we learned they were actually reading when they started reading all kinds of things (road signs, billboards, mail, text messages, shopping lists, food labels, reading over our shoulders, etc). So yes it is possible. And it’s possible that if we had tried to actually teach them they would have been reading even earlier. But I’m glad they picked it up on their own without us actively teaching them as I think they are stronger readers as a result of being self motivated and are already used to sounding out words they don’t know rather than constantly asking us what a word is like I imagine they would if we had been the ones to teach them.[/quote]

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