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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I always question these responses.  My kids both read before kindergarten.  Both were pulled out for extra services along with 1 other kid (w/my son) and 2 other kids my daughter.  This was out of 30 kids.  So VERY difficult to believe all these kids are reading.  I'm guessing many are "reading."  And the person who said he kid read H.Potter as a first grader...  :roll: I just grabbed out copy and flipped through it.  He understood:  chortle, apothecary, swarthy, prefect, smarmy, hygienic...  :twisted: [/quote]

Not all early readers are created the same.  6yo's early reading was driven by early comprehension skills and vocabulary.  The ability to sound out any word came only recently.  Now this kid is truly unstoppable.

I also know [b]a 6yo with an amazing vocabulary that is not really reading yet[/b]--he might have a better vocabulary than you are I, seriously.  ANd I know plenty of kids who can read but have very little understanding of what they read. [/quote]

This was my kids because I'd been reading them pretty high level books from an early age and we listened to a lot of audiobooks.  It ended up being somewhat of a problem for my DS in 1st grade because he was a bit of a perfectionist about writing. His teacher said he had a big vocabulary and wanted to use these words that he knew but he didn't know how to spell them and didn't want to spell them wrong (his teacher didn't care at all about spelling it was all his own pressure on himself) so he paralyzed himself and got really frustrated.  DD, OTOH, would write reams of paper with her stories, diaries, etc. all completely unintelligible to anyone else because she didn't give a crap about spelling.  Unfortunately, she's in 4th grade and still not a great speller. (but a prolific reader and writer!)[/quote]

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