She's four and a half. Her literacy and her vocabulary because of it, is mind boggling. She has read entire boxed sets of chapter books now. Watching her read i

She's four and a half. Her literacy and her vocabulary because of it, is mind boggling. She has read entire boxed sets of chapter books now. Watching her read is fascinating too because she hasn't been taught any rules, so she'll come across words like "scheme" and read them as "sheme" because it makes sense. We correct her, she asks what it means and she puts it in a mental data store and then uses it for other word patterns later. Now when she finds a conflict where there are two possible pronunciations, she either figures it out because she knows the word or she points at it and asks which model (my word, not hers) it is. I have no clue how she learned to do this but we've always read a lot to her (by her request) and she just figured it out.