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[quote=Anonymous]There are one or two weird posters on this thread.  Really? Hieroglyphics?  Except the new readers speak English (or whatever) and generally understand most of what they just read (agree it's less than if it had been read to them, because they are working on two skills at once).  This isn't people simply learning to sound out foreign text.  Maybe "just a parlor trick" if there's an unusual young toddler who has memorized sight words without much comprehension or has a set of SN that includes a form of hyperlexia or what-have-you.

I consider it reading if kid can pick up something new with few/no pictures and read it as written, maybe struggling with a few words, NBD. The text doesn't have to contain really complex words, either, as long as it's not pure Dick and Jane, cat sat on mat stuff.

I'm not sure exactly when I learned to read, but my parents snuck me into a private school K at 4 years and 3 months because I could already read well before then.  I definitely remember reading the teacher's goals for the day on the blackboard before she got around to reading them out loud, so I'd say I was "reading" by then.  Seems young, but not outrageous, especially in the DMV.  [/quote]

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