I love reading all these posts...well I admit I didn't read all 195 pages but quite a few. I'm not sure that my girls are in the same league but they still amaze me so I'm still going to brag. My youngest DD2.8 started sounding out words about 4 months ago and now she is reading quite well as long as it is a fairly phonetic word or a few she has memorized. My older DD5 started also at about 27-28 months but stopped then until she read fluently at 35-36 months. DD5 was reading books like Wizard of Oz, james and the giant peach etc well before kindergarten so I am proud that she made it through the entire kindergarten year without hating it despite learning pretty much nothing. Thankfully they did a lot of art. We are on to 1st grade now and I hope they start differentiating for her next year because it didn't happen this year.