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[quote=Anonymous][quote]DP. I posted up thread about my anecdotal experience. I taught both of my kids to read at 4-4.5 before kindergarten. They both already knew their letters, sounds and names. They both could already rhyme and clap syllables. I bought some highly regarded phonics readers (MCP, excellent books) and my first read through them and then was a fluent reader entering kindergarten. My second couldn't make heads or tales of CVC. Just didn't even know where to start, he didn't get it. So I bought some newer readers that used the "Look at the _____ snake, truck, caterpillar" with pictures and he got the idea. Then we went back to the phonics readers and then he had the idea and read through them and was a fluent reader.

No issues with dyslexia or visual processing or a vocabulary poor environment. Just a different sort of brain than his brother. He needed phonics and something else, too.[/quote]

Former first grade teacher--back when kids learned to read in first grade:

PP, it also may be that child #2 just wasn't quite mature enough to read earlier. Sometimes, the light just clicks on.  I taught a number of kids who could not read at all at the beginning of the school year--but come January, the light clicked on and they ended up at the top of the class.  Not every child did this, but some.  It happens,

Reading early is not as important as having rich vocabulary and understanding.  [/quote]

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