I'm struggling to see how it can be possible to learn something so complex without any help!
The only explanation I have based on observing dd is that some kids have such good vocabulary and such amazing predictive power and just know so much, that they anticipate what is going to happen in any book, fiction and non-fiction. I say this because when dd is reading aloud, she will add words to a sentence to make it read better and then stop and realize those words are not on paper. This is also why even now if she can sometimes struggle with a simple word like 'but' but read butterflies every time with no problem. I don't believe dd is using the standard word decoding skills because no one has taught her that. Hopefully, when they do teach those skills at school,it will help dd become an even stronger reader.
