Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
I'm completely mystified by the assumption that young fluent readers must not be "comprehending" what they are reading. In what sense?? I mean, I can recall DD telling me all about books that she was reading when she was five and six-- so I know that she was really doing it, and really into them..

Yup, only substitute my son for your daughter. But I only encountered it once with his first grade teacher. Everyone else has totally gotten it. Even before me.