My story reflects yours (I was a "late" reader by grade but also the youngest in my grade, and voracious after I found the world larger than my tiny country town).
Because we read with our kids, all of them were reading by late 3/early 4 years old, by their own desire. While none have had a propensity for George Orwell at the third grade, they do read things beyond their age levels.
I was lucky, and my kids are lucky.
I wonder, are there any organizations that folks can volunteer at to help kids at your and my age in elementary school learn to read?
I was not considered a "late" reader at all for the early 80s though, at least where I was -- they just didn't try to teach preschoolers to read then and there like they do now. I think what they do now is a mistake... but that could be my own anecdotal prejudices.
Because we read with our kids, all of them were reading by late 3/early 4 years old, by their own desire. While none have had a propensity for George Orwell at the third grade, they do read things beyond their age levels.
I was lucky, and my kids are lucky.
I wonder, are there any organizations that folks can volunteer at to help kids at your and my age in elementary school learn to read?