For what it's worth, we officially knew that our son was reading on his own at 2. But in all likelihood, he was reading much earlier. We just assumed that he had memorized all of his board books, until he picked up an unfamiliar book and read the whole thing aloud (that was at 2). So when he actually learned to read could have been many months before that. He knew all his letters and numbers by about 15 months, I think, and was also remembering what basic street signs said at that point. We were living in a concrete jungle type environment at the time, and words were everywhere.
Tara
