Learning to Read - doing 'research', please help

[JaneS]

Hi everyone,

I'm a PhD student studying literacy (including psychology of reading), though not in a modern context. I am dyslexic myself and learnt to read quite oddly because of that and some vision disturbances, so it's difficult for me to use my own experiences as a blueprint.

I would really like to know when you (if you know) and your DCs learned to read, age-wise. And did they have any problems? What did they make of phonics - did they struggle to understand that letters represent sounds, or did this seem to come naturally? Any memories of things they did/said about books and reading that seem strange/quirky to you as an adult?

Would love to hear from you if you have a moment.

Thanks,

LRD.

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my daughter learned her phonics using the jolly phonics scheme aged 3. She was very eager and we did 5 mins a day but only if she was in the mood. Before starting school she could read words like 'balloon' and 'free'.

My mother has told me that i taught myself how to read at the age of 4.
I taught both my dd's how to read before they started school, this was achieved with very little effort on my part.
My ds(who turned 5 in July) was a different hettle of fish. He refused to read before starting school, had no interest in learning his tricky words etc. At the end of his reception year he could not blend and the only tricky word he knew was 'me'. During the summer holidays i ordered the Scholfield and Sims sound phonics books and did a bit with him every day. He has now flourished
I just believe that he wasn't ready before.