Interesting post. I was reportedly a late talker and fit the described pattern of jumping straight from single words into complete sentences, but I always assumed this was an exaggeration. Maybe not.
I can say for certain I had a similar pattern in reading ability because I was old enough to remember this jump. I couldn’t read at all until first grade, but I had been pretending I could read by memorizing the short children’s books or listening to other people read things in class and figuring out what must be written. Reading ability suddenly clicked for me in first grade, just all at once seeing the sounds merge into word I knew, and by second grade I was burning through children’s novels, and into stuff like The Hobbit by third.
Interesting post. I was reportedly a late talker and fit the described pattern of jumping straight from single words into complete sentences, but I always assumed this was an exaggeration. Maybe not.
I can say for certain I had a similar pattern in reading ability because I was old enough to remember this jump. I couldn’t read at all until first grade, but I had been pretending I could read by memorizing the short children’s books or listening to other people read things in class and figuring out what must be written. Reading ability suddenly clicked for me in first grade, just all at once seeing the sounds merge into word I knew, and by second grade I was burning through children’s novels, and into stuff like The Hobbit by third.