My little one is 3 and a half and starting reception in September ( late July birthday). He is in a nursery class attached to a primary school. They are doing the early stages of read write inc and over the past month hes really got the hang of reading CVC words and can sound out and read any phonetically regular word hes been taught the sounds for ie not sh, th etc. I'm delighted but not surprised hes picked it up quickly as he was an early talker and I've always read him stories. The thing is he only wants to read words in isolation and refuses to read early readers even though he could easily decode all the words. They don't send reading books home from school but I bought the songbirds series. I haven't pushed him as shes still so young and has plenty of time to get to grips with it. I'm just curious though, does learning to read follow the same trajectory as learning to speak ie do kids spend time when they first start out reading single words in isolation rather like a one year old would say single words before they progress to short sentences etc. I'm just intrigued really.
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