Jenjoy, you make my kid sound so normal! - that's why I love this place! My kid was book obsessed from an early age, so at 18 months dd3 could recite most of her books- I remember hearing her recite Brown Bear, Brown bear over the baby monitor at that age... she went on to some of her other books and looking at the pictures she would say things like "Goldilocks, Goldilocks what do you see - I see three bears looking at me!" and she would laugh as though she knew this was funny. HA! When she was 2 years 3 months we were at someone else's home when she picked up a book she had never read before and started reading all of the little prepositions and articles - I would not have believed it if I had not seen it with my own eyes.. but I guess from having memorized so many of her own books, she had put 2 and 2 together and started to memorize words. She already knew all of her letters and most of the letter sounds at that point, so I decided to show her how you could just put the letter sounds together to sound out words. By two and a half she was reading fluently... totally crazy, I know... I think a lot of parents will say that their child can read when they can recite books - which I agree, makes our jobs communicating with teachers a bit more of a challenge.
