When Do Kiddos Start to Read?

Depends on the child and the definition of reading. My oldest was reading entire books like "Cat in the Hat" at age 4, and upon entering K at age 5 was reading chapter books with full comprehension, and tested at a 2nd grade level. My youngest wasn't truly reading a story with full comprehension, until almost age 6.

I taught my daughter to read at age 4. I used the book "Teach your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons". It takes about 15 minutes a day. By day 60 my daughter could read all the easy readers in the book store. By the time she went to kindergarten she was reading chapter books like Junie B. Jones.
I think that is great you want to teach him.

I did the same method J.C. (below in the response list) used: "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons"
My daughter started a little past 3 1/2 and finished the week before her 4th birthday. She was reading 2nd grade science text books (her older brother's) for fun. It is a super program and very easy/simple for you to do with him. I also did it with my son. From your description of your son, my son sounds a lot like him. It was a little more challenging for me and my son than it was for me and my daughter. Partly because I had not done it before when I started with him. And partly because he was a different personality. It worked better with him to break the 20-30 minute lessons up into 2 parts. And make the writing portion very free : a stick in the dirt, a finger in the sand, finger in shaving cream, finger paint, etc.... We used a magna-doodle most of the time, and it worked. But he did better if I let him experiment with other ways sometimes, too.
A sticker chart was a great motivator to get to the end of the lesson with my son. My daughter didn't need one.

I am a kindergarten teacher...some kids come to me reading, some come just starting to read, and some are not reading at all. It depends on exposure, what has been done with them since birth (have they been read to? are people working with them? daycare/preschool/etc.) Also, for some it comes so natural, and others it takes longer. Sounds like your little guy is on the right track. I know the BOB books. Continue reading to and with him...be sure he is reading books at his level. Good luck!

Ha, I did not know our daughter could read. I purchased the first set of BOB books and she read the entire set on the way home. I turned the car around and exchanged it for the next set. She pretty much read those the next day..

She was 4.. Little stinker had known how to read for quite while, but liked for us to read to her.

my daughter was 5 when she could sit by herself and read a full book (level 2) and understand it. My son is 4 and I just started working on 3 lettered words with him this week and he is doing great!

Everyone is different! I could read at age three, my almost four year old can read three letter words sometimes. My 6.5 year old is still struggling with reading. I think your son sounds advanced personally! In my daughter's kindergarten class only about 5 kids out of 20 could read when they came in, the rest could all read at least at a level 4 by graduation (beginning, like bob would probably be level 1).

Keep up the good work! Just to let you know, I learned in a special education class that girls are typically (not always) earlier readers than boys, and many boys are not emotionally/psychologically ready to read until age 6 or 7. Good luck!

actually phonetically reading , 5-6 yrs.

Sounds like he's doing GREAT!
Don't push, but keep encouraging the rest of those BOB books.
My 3.5 yr old loves his "Meet the Sight Words" dvds from preschool prep co.
You and he are doing an awesome job M..
Get him to start practicing writing his name.

All of my kids started reading in kindergarten.

My DD will be 6 next week. I am homeschooling her at a Kindergarten level right now.
My mom started doing Bob books w/ her a long time ago...but she (my DD) is really not too keen on learning. And she is happy to make that known.
So I am now really cracking down on her.
We have been working on phonics a lot.
Going over the different sounds and blends.

I also bought this book: http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Read-Lessons/dp/06...

We have been working at it pretty hard for 2 weeks and she is doing great!

Your son is young-he was 3! last week. Personally, if he is showing resistance, I would lay off.
Too much, too soon could backfire. But like T.J. said every child is different...

Hope this helps a little! :)

What are Bob books? I have been wanting to get my almost 4 year old started on learning to read.

Sorry I don't really have an answer, but my sister is in 3rd grade. I think she started reading in 1st grade.

HI--
My oldest taught himself his phonics at age 3, and could read those Bob books at around 4 as well. However, he's now seven and is just getting to a fluent reading level. I found it took longer to get there then I thought it would. Just a thought to keep in mind :-)
You're doing a great job!
J.

Sounds like you're doing great. My oldest wasn't reading until almost 6, and my youngest was reading shortly after turning 3. I had to finally teach my oldest - using the 'Teach your Child to read in 100...' book that others have mentioned, since he wasn't 'getting it' from school, but my youngest learned from a really good preschool he was going to (they have completely different personalities & learning styles too). We did the 'meet the sight words' DVDs with my youngest too. He loved them! I agree on not pushing, but continuing to encourage. It's a balancing act sometimes. We also have most of the BOB books, and my son seemed to like them. My biggest problem is getting my youngest to read a book more than once. You may want to use the library instead of the book store and try finding books in his area of interest (e.g. trucks, cars, planes, animals, etc).