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[quote=Anonymous][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]

You find it difficult to believe all these kids could be reading while in the same sentence declaring BOTH of yours read before K? It's not that hard to believe, especially if you had two of these supposed reading unicorns in your family. [/quote]

Correct, because  I'm not claiming my kids were reading at a 6th grade level or other ridiculous claim when they had the life experiences of a 5 year old.  Once a kid can read...decode...he could"read" anything.  Doesnt mean he is "reading" on an x-grade level.[/quote]

I am the OP with a son who read Harry Potter in 1st grade. If you really want to know, at that age he also read Beowulf (Morpurgo version), Roald Dahl's autobiographies for kids, and the Longest Day, a book for grow-ups about D-Day. Besides all the usual stuff like Wimpy Kid and Calvin and Hobbes, etc.He tried reading A Brief History of Time, but didn't have the necessary physics background. 
My son is 2E, he is gifted and also has learning disabilities.

I get the Harry Potter eye-roll all the time, particularly from people who should know better such as teachers and principals. Some people cannot accept that there is a wide range of human ability, and that we should nurture all these inquisitive young minds at whatever level they're at.

My 4 year old daughter is more typical, and is nowhere near reading yet. She can add and subtract, though!

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