DD4 is so fascinating to me. I guessed that she would be reading by 3 or 4, but as of yet she is not. She can read a few site words, and has the ability to sound out letters and put together...but just isn't reading. An interesting thing that she started doing months ago (shortly after she turned 4) is "writing" words. She has pretty good print and can write most letters. She will write all sorts of sentences but they will only be the first letter or so of the words. It will be something like this "CWPPOT?" meaning "can we please play outside today." Yesterday she wrote a note to family for babysitting her and it said "TYSMFBBSUIHWHLOFTGR" meaning "thank you so much for babysitting us, I hope we have lots of fun together" So now it has progressed to writing a little more of the consonants that she hears. She will just sit and sound it all out, and does this very quickly. But then she grabs books and asks us to read it to her. After asking about 3 words to her (like pausing and pointing to a word and asking her to sound it out) she will tell us she just wants us to read it and not ask her. Anyhow, this is so foreign to us because DS7 was reading before 2 on his own. We never sounded out words or did anything. Anyone else have a child doing anything like this? Any thoughts?
