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PP, be proud of your DD.  It's wonderful that she's reading so well, and that is a skill that will benefit her FOREVER.  I was an early reader (by age 4) and always had great comprehension skills and love to read to this day.  [b]Often times on this board, people spew crap about how early readers hate reading later on in life, or they don't understand what they're reading.[/b]  I really don't see that being true.[/quote]

I agree with the PP. (And I was an early and enthusiastic reader, have two early and enthusiastic readers, and believe that learning to read is great because then you can read.) There are definitely 5-year-olds who read Harry Potter, for example. And they understand it, in the sense of being able to tell you that first this happens, and then this happens, and then... However, probably most of them are missing a lot that they would not miss when they were older; for example, why somebody did something, or the more subtle humor. By all means they should read it if they want to read it! But I'm not sure I'd really describe it as "understanding what they're reading". And if, in a few years, they said, "Oh, I read that already," I might suggest that they read it again.

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