At 2 my DS had been "reading" his own books aloud for a while, but I'd assumed it was almost entirely memory. (He could recite long chunks of his favourite books with or without the book in front of him, so my assumption wasn't unreasonable; with hindsight, I think it was the fact that he had memorised so much that let him "crack the code".) I had known he could read CVC words a bit and that he'd had a phase of being obsessed with spelling, but I didn't realise he'd put it all together until he picked up a book he'd never seen before (at the open day of a school we were visiting!) and read it aloud all through. He hadn't hidden anything, but I'd made wrong assumptions about what it meant.
