A while ago, I was reading on a web site devoted to giftedness and came across a shocking story. I'm sorry I don't have a link for you, but this is the gist of it:
Dad was taking some courses at the local college to keep up with his profession. Mom was getting her Master's. And their 9 year old gifted daughter was taking a college class because she was that far ahead. One night, the 6 year old daughter was sobbing. The mom asked what was wrong, and she said, "I'm the dumb one in the family. I'm the only one who isn't in college!"
Shocking and funny, huh?
Well, it happened to us. Z turns 4 in a few weeks, and has been down in the dumps because he can't read. I told him that J didn't know how to read when he was 3, either, which helped a bit. And I told him I'd teach him how to read.
He's been doing great. He knew all the letters, upper- and lower-case, and the sounds each makes before his 2nd birthday. And he's actually better at guessing a word from the individual sounds than J was. So we asked at the library (for the second time) and were pointed toward BOB books. They're simple, with just a sentence or two per page. Z loves them! He's reading words like log, Pop, Jim, swim, the, sun, land, etc.
J also brings home little Harcourt "books" from kindergarten and hands them straight to Z. If he weren't only 3, Z would ace kindergarten!
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