Does anyone else have a child that has/had similar abilities at this age?
Suggestions please...
Don't think anyone else answered the question, so I will: Yes, the same list would have described my DS at that age. Have fun, it gets even better :-)
I agree with everyone else that there's no clear advantage to test right now. I have two suggestions:
- Find out about education options now. She'll change, and you won't know now what will work best for her, but you want to know what the different options are, especially if there might be waiting lists involved in any of them.
- You don't say whether she's reading or not. If she is showing interest, or trying and getting frustrated by non-decodable story books, trust her! DS was a bit younger than she is now when we bought our first Oxford Reading Tree Songbird Phonics, which I heartily recommend, and he took off with them. If she knows her sounds, that'll probably be enough to get her started with level 1. What we did was never to push them at all, but to treat reading books as special books which were only ever read by DS, not read to him. They are graded gently enough that he never needed help with more than the odd word.
