What does having a high reading age in reception or year 1 mean long term?

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Just wondering if anyone knew if there is any research that shows an advantage in having a high reading age in infants?
Was having a conversation with some other mums and some thought it had no long term significance, while a couple of others thought it predicted great things.
I had / have no idea but am now curious!
A quick Google found me nothing butmight not have used the correct search terms...

I was an early reader - I can't even remember not knowing how to read. I think it was a disadvantage in the sense that II didn't have to work hard in order to learn it, so I never quite learned to push myself. I was academically average after primary school.

Early reading statistically is correlated with being intellectually gifted, particularly before school age without any specific instruction. Not all early readers are gifted and not all gifted children read early but statistically there does appear to be a correlation.

Being intellectually gifted (top 1% of the population) isn't directly related to academic achievement. Many gifted children underperform academically for a host of reasons which is why I think people often talk about children "levelling out." The appropriate structures aren't always in place to allow very advanced children to reach their full potential.

Also success (academic and in life in general) is only partly dictated by intelligence. Ambition, work-ethic, resilience, emotional intelligence etc have a very large role to play.

Longdivision's experience is really typically of advanced children. They aren't pushed adequately in school and don't develop any work ethic so when the work gets harder have no study techniques and aren't use to having to strive. In fact, fear of failure prevents some from trying at all as per a previous posters DD.

Other advanced kids underperform in primary school due to boredom but if the work gets more interesting re-engage in secondary school.

Most schools don't have the resources to really help the most advanced kids to be appropriately challenged so they stay both engaged and develop a good work ethic and resilience.

Two of my dc learned early but have had no lasting interest in reading for pleasure. Ds has gone on to study maths and science subjects, he never really enjoyed English.

Dd3 struggled to pick it up and was well into yr2 before she even began to get the hang of it. She’s since been the most prolific reader, always had books on the go since and is now doing her English A level.

I am a secondary school teacher of Maths,so a bit different, but almost without fail the best 5 or 6 students at the start of Y7 are in the best few at the end of Y11, and they get further and further ahead of other students.

dootball
Do you stream/set?
It is in some ways understanable with maths. As maybe those kids are more accurate, pick things up quickly.

Also students are targetted on their ks2 sats for their gcses and teacher pay is affected. All kids are targeted to make progress
I dont think it would have been true at my school. As in the top 3 maybe but probably not 5.
But we did whole class teaching within the sets so everyone had an equal chance in each exam (within the top set)
But it was a small school. I think there may be limited movement between sets.