the average child is just incapable of reading at 4. He can be extremely bright, but the brain just isn’t properly organized yet for reading. You were in a special group.
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Average today or average for 70+ years ago?
2&3-year-olds today operate tablets just fine because they watch adults do it and copy them. Back in the day, our parents read to us. We watched, linked sounds to shapes and maybe it was memorization at first, but at some point, relationships clicked and we could decipher brand-new material.
I read at 4, in 1947. I read at an adult level by age 8. I read and write quickly with high comprehension, as long as the subject matter isn’t technical or mathematical. And by mathematics, I do mean arithmetic. Thank God for calculators.
Different skills and brain activity involved in what those babies are doing with tablets. The neural development for reading is just not there for most little ones before 5. You were a special child.
Same sort of deal with potty training. All 4 of my boys developed language skills very early, and, while they could talk about using the potty, after just turning 2, in relatively complex language, they just could not perform the action. I have seem the same in my 4 grandsons.
My daughter read real early. I’m putting it at 5.
I have no idea when I was able to read.
I was tested twice on some reading\comprehension test cause the nuns thought i cheated the first time.
my grandmother said i was playing chess at 6 years old with the “old” guys down at the playground.
To this day, I don’t ever remember being taught how to play chess.
And here I am putting all this talent to waste on a Q thread, waiting for golf season to start.