Can your LO read?

TheBub · March 2012

...and at what age did they start?

ArcticFox · March 2012

My DD is great at reading, she turns 5 next month. She tries to read everything. She reads those beginning reader books pretty well (step 1 series). She still needs help, and I usually read the book to her first, but she surprises me. We were at the store the other day and she read a sign that said "Please wait for the next available representative" (I helped her with representative).

I think she started reading noticeably when she started 4 year old preschool (she was about 4.5 at the time). She was already sounding out stuff and reading very simple words when she turned 4 (now that I remember, because she was getting beginner reader books for her bday).

In the beginning, it is word recognition, which was happening at the end of her 3 year old preschool. Like kids names in her class and stuff she would see frequently. They pick up pretty quickly.

ToBeMrsT · March 2012

DS is 4 (January birthday) and he cannot read.

TheBub · March 2012

ArcticFox:
In the beginning, it is word recognition, which was happening at the end of her 3 year old preschool. Like kids names in her class and stuff she would see frequently. They pick up pretty quickly.

DS is in preschool now. Next he will do two years of 4yo pre-k because he started young. He knows all letters and sounds and can usually tell you what letter a word starts with by hearing it. Honestly, he has learned a lot from his LeapPad. We have done a couple of things here and there...some sight word flash cards, spelling -at words and the like, playing a game of recognizing a word in a book and then finding throughout the book. He can also read all of the kids' names in his preschool class.

Now that I am finally done BFing DD and we are getting a more normal routine in the evening, I want to sit down with him more and really work on this (but not push him!). I just wanted to see if this was even possible at his age. He is my little smarty pants and is always hungry for more.

Wally3 · March 2012

No - he is 3. He is starting to pick out some words like his name, mommy, and a few others.

yankeebear · March 2012

DD will be turning 5 this month and she is suddenly starting to read. They have been doing sight words in preschool all year and something just clicked. Now she wants to read all the time.

pea-kay · March 2012

nope. the only words they recognize are their names. i don't if they'll read later because they're at a french immersion school, or if they'll learn to read french first or what. i don't really think about it much, to be honest.

Stacyc625 · March 2012

Around 3.5yr old- my DD really took off with the basic reading steps. She will point out the words she knows in the book- and she will follow and point to words with her finger and read them.

She can read several step 1 books on her own. That being said- she loves to read and be read to and she really enjoys her Tag Reader- we have a lot of the shorter 'learn to read' books- that help with the phonetics of the words.

DoughGirl · March 2012

Yes. DS can read any of the Step 1 books unassisted, and the Step 2 books with some help. We began phonics with him around 2 years old with flash cards.

Plus side- he LOVES to read and is easily occupied with a book. Loves the library, loves bookstores.

Down side- developmentally, he's right on target everywhere else and easily gets bored in his class. He teacher holds up an oatmeal canister in teaching that "oatmeal" starts with the letter O, and DS reads it and says, "Quaker Old Fashioned oats! Cooks in 5 minutes, and he's way over the letter o. It's hard to keep him interested sometimes.

Court0026 · March 2012

By 2.5, Owen knew all of the letters and all of their sounds. He is VERY interested. Very. I have been teaching beginning reading for my entire career and I can't believe how much he likes it. Anyway, just after he turned 3, he started reading short, easy books (Starfall, etc.). He probably knows 25ish sight words. Comparing him to the school district I teach in, he is about mid-kindergarten level at this point (almost 3.5). I love that he still sucks his thumb and isn't potty trained...

Jen&Len · March 2012

We just realized that DS could read this week! He's known his phonetics since 18 months but we've only sporadically worked on reading through phonics with him since we're so busy with work and the kids. He watches the Leapfrog reading DVD's and we knew he could read some words, but I thought he learned them by sight from the DVD's. This week, I saw him making up fake words with his letters and attempting to sound them out. That's when I realized he could do things phonetically, even if they weren't real words!

KathrynMD · March 2012

DD remembers words/books if we've read them recently, so she'll say them and pretend to be reading, but she's really just remembering. She's 3.5. Her pre-reading skills are excellent - recognizes how to read a book, top to bottom, left to right, knows a story has a beginning middle and end, can answer questions about the books she's read and she wants to read - most nights she asks to sleep w/ a book - which I love.

SpartanGirl · March 2012

My oldest began reading the summer before she started Kindergarten (she was 5 1/2). She had been reading some simple books (BOB books) before then and really took off during the summer. She's an amazing reader now (she has just started reading short chapter books independently) and really, really loves it.

DS will be 4 next week and can not read. He knows his letters and some sounds fairly well but isn't near ready to read yet.

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