If your child learnt to read early, did they also talk early?

[Kathyis6incheshigh]

Just interested - do the things usually go together?

my older 3 all read somewhere between 2 and 4 but all talked at different times.
DD can't speak so will learn to read before she can talk.

Very early reader (site words at 16months), early talker. Whether she taught herself to speak as she learnt to read or whether she taught herself to read as she learnt to talk is beyond me. She is 3.5y now with a reading age of a 12yr old.

Arghh, sight not site words. By 23months she was reading level 3 ORT.

ds1 and dd2 taught themselves to read early. dd2 was def not an early talker - oral motor skills compromised by cerebral palsy actually we were told she wouldn't talk at all, but they were wong. ds1 early talker, always think it looks really weird to see teeny tiny tot talking in sentences!

wong? wrong!

DS was an early talker - he was using 3 word sentences by 1 year, but is proving to be a late reader.

Readability of age twelve. Not comprehension surely!!!

Even so, do children of three have enough exprerience of syntax to be reading at this level.

I am amazed, you have an uber child there.

My dd1 was a very early talker.
She went from being virtually mute to talking in complete sentences by the time she was 18 months old. She was amazing.
Reading, however, has always been a huge challenge for her. She didn't 'click' at all with reading till around the end of Year 2 and is now a really really reluctant reader (year 4) although she can read quite well.

My dd2 was a late speaker and I was fairly worried at one point. The content was ok but the clarity was awful (we relied on big sis interpretting for us ).
Now, she could recognise words (wouldn't exactly say she could read) at aged 3, and by the time she started school at 4 could read simple text and picked it all up quickly. She is 5 now and loves reading.

So, no, no correlation in our family

No, comprehension of between 7 and 8yrs... Nursery assessed her at the end of the summer term.