I used to teach at a Montessori preschool. We taught reading from Day 1 to 2 1/2 year olds. Children often learn to read long before they can write or tie their shoes.
One boy was brought in by parents who said that he appeared able to read almost immediately after he began to talk. At first they thought he had memorized his story books. But then he started reading cereal boxes and newspapers and they knew it wasn’t rote memorization of favorite stories.
I developed a great relationship with this bright boy over the next few years of schooling and asked him how he had learned to read.
Answer: Wheel of Fortune.
I was an early reader too, as were my sisters and their children. I attribute it to being in a reading family and being read to a lot as children