reading

It didn't come as such a surprise when, aged 2 years and 5 months, Bernard learned to read.  He has been obsessed by letters since the age of 18 months, and has been able to identify initial letters for some time now.  Last week he read all the animal sounds in his animal counting book: moo, quack, squeak, woof etc, on the page which has no pictures on it (though he may of course remember which sounds are likely to be written there).  But yesterday morning we were fooling around with letter sounds and I said, "What does M-U-M say?" and he said, "Mum," and then I said, "What does D-A-D say," and he said, "Dad," and then we carried on that game in the car, all the way to nursery.  "More letters," he kept saying, and he was able to do phonemic blending on plenty of three-letter words such as "peg", "bed" and more.  That was a step he hadn't taken before.  And so yesterday evening, we read the page in his alphabet book which has three letter words in it, and he was able to read about half.  Well done, little one!