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I dunno.  Not OP, but I was reading "The Hobbit" by myself at 6.  I suspect that's at 6th grade reading level.  No special instruction by parents, just a reader.  My writing was certainly not at "The Hobbit" level.[/quote]

I probably read The Hobbit by myself at 6, too, but I seriously doubt that I would have been able to answer complicated reading comprehension questions about it. Certainly there would have been a lot that I missed, from vocabulary to humor to characterization and characters' motivation (such as there is, in The Hobbit).

Which is not to say that six-year-olds should not read The Hobbit! Just that merely being able to read the book doesn't mean you're at that reading level, the way the school defines it.[/quote]

But just because you couldn't, doesn't mean other kids couldn't.  Not to toot my own horn, but I definitely could.  My parents were awesome about asking discussion-type questions, and I spent nearly all my time outside of school with adults who were like that.  (Not the best thing socially, but I was happy.)  And I know I'm not the smartest person in the world, and wasn't the most advanced child.  So, that's just to say that I think it's unwarranted to disbelieve OP.  It's entirely possible that there's a kid doing this.[/quote]

I think that one should be cautious about saying that one could have done something one didn't actually do, when one was six.[/quote]

No, I'm saying I actually did.  And I just checked with my mom, because I wondered if I was misremembering.  She confirmed, and said that wasn't even the most advanced thing. But it's a vivid memory because it's tied to an odd, dramatic family event that I'm not going to share.  [/quote]

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