Learning to Read: How My Attention-Challenged Child Began Reading

 Each of my first three children began reading in very different ways. My fourth child Minky’s reading story shows an interesting combination of traits from her older siblings. 

Listening to Reading
When I realized that Kyro had taught himself to read by listening to Lock read comic books out loud, I investigated how much Minky knew already, since she had been in on all the bedtime reading sessions right along with Kyro.
She was only four, so I didn’t expect her to read as fluently as Kyro, but I was pleasantly surprised at how much she had picked up just from listening to Lock read aloud. She had the basics of phonics down pretty well and knew how to sound out words for the most part. As she went to age five and six, she progressed fairly easily through the reading stages with little help from me; I just read out loud a lot, as I had done with my older three children. Read more