Once they showed interest in reading, we did a fair bit of literacy practice. In retrospect, I suspect they still would have acquired reading skills early (jus

Once they showed interest in reading, we did a fair bit of literacy practice. In retrospect, I suspect they still would have acquired reading skills early (just less so) if we hadn't, and if not, the Kindergarten and first grade literacy instruction we have available to us is pretty good. So, maybe substitute reading to them for some of that time, and looking at science books, and playing with microscopes, etc. Note we did all of those things too, but I'd change the proportions a bit.