How old was your child when.............

[mla2177]

he/she started to read?

 

[Kimberle]

In our school district, kids are expected to be able to read about 100 words when they leave Kindergarten.

My dd is now in 2nd grade. She reads extremely well. She's read Harry Potter, Charlotte's Web, Black Beauty, etc. She started her first easier chapter books (Junie B Jones) in 1st grade.

 

[DaisyD]

DD was just a month into kindergarten. She could read some words before that but mostly by memory. At the beginning of kindergarten she started being able to read kindergarten readers. I was amazed she could sound out words and read the little books. She is in 2nd grade now and reads 5th grade level books.

 

[LBAK]

They start in the fall of kindegarten here. They are expected to enter kindegarten with letter recognition and hopefully most sounds. At kindegarten screening they test them.

 

[Longsx3]

DD(10) was 4. The TAG teacher at her previous school labeled her a spontaneous reader...we were very lucky although we had read to her everynight since she was born we never sat down with the purpose of teaching her to read.

 

[janette]

DD#1 in Kindergarten, DD#2 in 2nd grade (she is dyslexic).

 

[slo]

My DD was 6, and she was in kindergarten at this time.

 

[chris1gill]

At a month into kindergarten (5.5 years) our son was reading extensively... Our daughter was reading pretty well at the end of kindergarten when she was 6.5 years... Our son could have read earlier, but he was afraid of failure and thus didn't seems to be a trend with him....

 

[MUFFYCAT]

My 2 girls were sometime in kindergarten.

 

[U2_rocks!]

DS was 5 and DD was 4. Now at 7, DS is average compared to his class, and DD (5) is advanced - she's reading a step above DS! My 4 yo DD isn't really showing too many signs of reading yet, but she's still at preschool - she won't be formally taught to read until September.

 

[SC Minnie]

DD was reading Dr Suess b4 Christmas when she was in K5.

 

[minkydog]

DD13 was about 6 when she began reading. She still loves to read and always has a book with her. DS20 was 8-1/2 before he could read. He was at least 10 or 11 before he read fluently. However, I read aloud to him constantly (we homeschooled starting in 3rd grade--I had him reading in 3 months time). As a result of hearing good books read aloud, he developed a keen interest in literature and his appetite for Shakespeare is insatiable.

 

[RadioNate]

5 kindergarten. They are expected to be reading at a "C" level or above when they leave kinder.

 

[KristiKelly]

DS was 5, started early (1st 9 weeks) into Kindergarten.
DD was in 4 yr. preschool, she could read Dick and Jane books before starting Kindergarten.

 

[wvrevy]

Put it this way...when we took DD to kindergarten orientation, we were sitting in the auditorium reading the requirements, on of which was that your child should be able to recognize all of the letters of the alphabet.

Meanwhile, DD was reading the signs on the bulletin board, the banner welcoming parents, and the other papers we were given. She's already read some of the Junie B. Jones books and has started reading some of the Magic Treehouse series, halfway through kindergarten.

 

[T1130]

My dd is in kg. this year. Around Dec. I realized she was picking up books and reading on her own.

 

[clori]

My dd6 is a self taught reader starting at age 3 but it wasn't until 4 1/2 that I would consider her a very fluent reader. In preschool she read books like Junie B Jones with full fluency and comprehension. At the beginning of the school year dd's first grade teacher tested the entire class. She told me dd was reading at a beginning 4th grade level. She learned thru whole language and is learning phonics with her class.

In kindergarten last year I know that they all learned to read simple 3 letter words and had some sight words as well so by the end of the year most were at least doing simple reading.

 

[mom2rb]

I have 8 1/2 year old twins. One of them has been reading since he was five. He reads anything he can get his hands on. The other one reads at about a mid-first grade level. In fact he starts tutoring today. The one twin has been doing all the reading for the both of them. It has made it hard the one that is struggling to read. I think if they were a few years apart in age it would be easier.

 

[mickeyboat]

They teach reading in first grade in our school district. My girls could both read quite a few words when they left K, but didn't become fluent readers until about half way through first grade.

Denae

 

[PhotobearSam]

I have no children but My Mom told me that I began to read by myself in English at 5 from reading Monopoly cards. We grew up in a French household but I taught myself English before I ever went to K.

I only began to read French a year later. In our School system, we don't start English course until Grade 3. By that time they were reading See Dick Jump, See Spot Run, etc and I was reading about the Dukes of Hazzard in my Tiger Beat Magazines. they had no books in class I could not breeze through.

My nieces both began at 5 in K. I guess I wasone of those Spontaneous readers as well.