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I really enjoyed this old thread while searching for something in the archives:
Reading Age
Can we have a "take 2" of this thread, since there are some new faces on the board now? And, I like to hear reading stories and ages. Every child is so different.
How long does it take your children to read with some fluency? What is the average age for this in your family? Do you enjoy teaching a child to read?
dd #1 began sounding out words when she was 5.5 and I would say, just became fluent a few months ago, at 7.5.
dd #2 began sounding out words at 5.5 and fluent at 6.
dd#3 is almost five and is beginning to sound out words.
I love watching the satisfaction that they get when they start reading. Although, I have to admit I thought I would enjoy this whole process a bit more than I have. Probably has something to do with my 3 oldest girls being so close in age, they are, in a way all starting to read at the same time, but yet, at slightly different levels.
The reading process is truly mind-boggling to me! It's amazing, really.
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I have 7 dc. My first began sounding out words at around 6 and was fluent a few months later. She basically taught herself to read as she was very head strong and wanted no assistance. 2nd began trying to read at 6 due to my insistence  but wasn't really getting it. I dropped it until around age 8 when he could sound out some short vowel words. He wasn't really fluent until 11 or so. 3rd dc started sounding out small words at 7 and was fluent around 8. 4th dc began sounding out at 6 and was fluent shortly after. 5th dc started sounding out words around 6 and at 7 1/2 is not fluent. 6th dc is sounding out a few small words at age 5.
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I have 3 dc as of now.
Ds #1 is 5 and is starting to sound out words. We are working with Explode the Code and he's really enjoying it.
Ds #2 is 4 and has been reading fluently since he turned 3. I'd like to take credit for this, but he taught himself. I really think the Leap Frog videos were a big contributor to him being able to sound things out phonetically.
Ds #3 is almost 2 and well, not anywhere near reading! 
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Oh, this is very encouraging to me. My oldest dd can sound out words and read some sight words, but she isn't fluent at all. She'll be 7 later this month, and I'm hoping (b/c she resists my direct teaching in this area) that it will just "click" for her in the next year or so.
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I have two dc.
DS began reading at four and was fluent at age 5.5.
DD knew her sounds at 2.5, began reading at 5.5 and was fluent at 6. She tells us she could read when she was four, but she didn't want to tell us. LOL
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My oldest didn't read until the age of 12. I kid you not. Julie Bogart from Bravewriter also writes in the Writing Jungle about how long it took her daughter to learn how to read. Some kids just really struggle with it.
That said I have a 15 year old boy who reads well, but reads slowly. He just finished The Scarlett Letter, but I am trying to push him to reading more and getting faster with good comprehension.
Son #3 is 13. He reads at about a 5th grade level. Son #4 reads very well (figures!) So I have those two boys read together. A little friendly competition pushes both of them.
My 9 year old daughter knocked out all of her front teeth in an accident at age 4. The resulting speech difficulties really slowed down her reading but she is starting to catch up.
My baby is 3 and loves books, but I'm not ready for formal teaching yet! We'll see.
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Dd #1- Began learning to read at 5.3, was reading within a couple of months and was independent easily by six. So I thought it was all so easy and that's how they would all be 
Ds #2- Very resistant, everything was so hard..I pushed to start him at about 5.6, we'd try, and back off etc it took over a year and he wasn't reading for pleasure until 7.
Ds #3- I'd learnt a bit by then I backed off and didn't really start till much closer till 6, it took a while still fairly close to 7, but some time in his 7th year he was reading for pleasure.
Ds #4 - I waited even later, got serious after he was 6, we'd go in fits and starts, I'd try not to push too much, had a baby etc, he really didn't get it till after 8 and we seemed to have plateaued for a couple of years, just at the basic stage, for 2 yrs! we'd seem to have a break through and then plateau again.  Finally in the last fortnight he's taking books to bed for pleasure and reading. He is now 9.4 I sometimes wonder if we missed a window of opportunity and it made it much harder.
Dd #5- A breeze, showed an interest young, very similar to her sister, was reading within a couple of months by age 6 and is now reading for pleasure at age 7. Her brother and her are rather competitive about it, I think that is what has finally motivated him.
Dd #6- Dd4 is showing an interest far younger than her brothers did, she always wants to keep up with her sister. We are doing a modified version of the Alphabet Path, but as she is 'in charge' we shall see.
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Dd1 started sounding out words around 5.5yo-6yo. She didnt really start reading or even show an interest til 6.5yo. She's now 7yo and is more fluent and getting better by the day.
Dd2 started sounding out words at around 5yo. She is almost 6yo and can read almost as well as dd1.
They both love books and ask to stay up a bit more at night just to read. How can i say no to that?
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We taught dd to read using 100 Easy Lessons, when she was 5, shortly before starting Kindergarten. She was fluent by 1st grade, however, she didn't really start enjoying reading until she was 7.5 or so.
Ds1 was also taught to read at the age of 5 using 100 Easy Lessons, shortly before starting Kindergarten. He was fluent by the end of Kindergarten. He now reads because I make him read a little every day, but doesn't "love" it yet.
Ds2 turned 5 last month, and I've decided to follow his lead. We started and stopped 100 Easy Lessons a couple of times, but we were both pretty bored with it. He knows all his letter sounds, but doesn't quite understand the blending of letter sounds. I just ordered the Leap Frog videos for him today. I think he may like this approach better.
Ds3 is only 2.5, so we've got a ways to go until he's ready.
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Can I add what feels like a silly question to this thread?
What do we mean when we say that a child reads 'fluently'?
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SaraP wrote:
Can I add what feels like a silly question to this thread?
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I don't think that's a silly question at all! I was wondering the same thing. I would say my 7yo dd reads fluently, meaning that she can read at her grade level without much stumbling and needing to sound out words. Other people might have a different definition.
She started attempting to read around age 5.5.
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That's actually a good question! 
And, people probably have different definitions, I would guess.
Fluent, to me, means about the same as Katie said above. A child is reading books (readers, picture books, etc.) without a lot pausing to sound out words. Occasionally stopping to ask about new words or the meaning of a phrase. But, otherwise, is independent.
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Aidan, my special needs child, is still stuck on blending. He has memorized several words which he can spell and read, but doesn't read for himself yet.
Paddy, almost six, is reading quite well. He reads over our shoulders and sometimes corrects my reading when I'm not wearing my glasses  He still prefers me to read to him, so I can't call him "fluent" yet. He can read 1st to 2nd grade level things now, and started reading a bit just after he turned five.
I do enjoy overseeing the literacy process.
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