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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP..you are not correct about that.  My just turned 3 year old read (simple) books to her preschool class with nothing more than a good supply of books to choose from at home.  Her older sib was not yet reading and we had no expectations that she would pick it up.  She loved to make chains of rhymes as around 2 and then she connected that understanding to the sounds the letters make.  All the sudden she was reading "The Fat Cat Sat on the Mat" , "Hop on Pop" and on and on.  She was just very intuitive about combining the sounds and figuring out the words.  She also has an excellant memory for words.  Read it once and new it forever..how to spell it too.  Child #1 did not have these skills and really needed to be taught reading.  Every kid is different.  [/quote]

My child read at that age also but to suggest that she just picked up a book and decoded the letters is fantasy.  Let me ask how did your child figure out what x or t sounds like?  [/quote]

My kid had a fascination with shapes, and then letters (which when you think about it are simply shapes).  He loved making abc puzzles. He knew the entire alphabet before he turned 2.  We didn't coach him, other than singing abc's with him like most parents do, or when he would do the alphabet puzzle say "and there's the D!"  We never used our fingers to point to words as we read to him, or asked him "what does this word mean?"  - yet when he was 3 he began asking us what signs on the road meant as we were driving past them. As in, reading the words on the sign and asking "what does 'detour' or 'no passing' mean?"  And he'd pronounce the words with unbelievable accuracy.  He was actually in the county speech program until he turned 3 because of a speech delay and the therapist who worked with him said, "he's going to start reading before he turns 4."  She saw something remarkable about him. He just understood from an early age that letters put together = words that mean something.  I can't explain to you how he figured that out.  Perhaps just a differently wired brain.  But it wasn't us sitting there using flash cards with him and drilling him on sounds.

And once he started reading, it wasn't a matter of just memorizing words, or reading without true comprehension.  You could ask him questions about what happened in the stories he'd just read for the first time and he would answer you correctly.

My other child is not like this at all.  A completely normal, bright child who loves to learn but doesn't absorb things instantaneously.[/quote]

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