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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Books at an adult level when I was not yet a teen. The first "classics" that I read were H. G. Wells books.
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Lots of kids in very booky households read books for adults when they are 9 to 15 yo. Some younger.
Some kids also learn to read very early (Hyperlexia). Only some are autistic (many are otherwise normal), but it might be more common with autism.
Hyperlexia is really just a catch-all label for anyone reading competently before age 5 and youngest seems to be slightly younger than two. It could be a more common ability than detected as most kids under 5 might not have the environment.
It used to be simply called being precocious.
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Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty.
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Reading ability need have no connection to spelling ability as competent reading in the west isn't much different to Chinese reading. You recognise the word, you aren't reading the letters and deciding what word it makes. Hence early readers or keen readers living in certain backgrounds may poor spellings and no idea of pronunciation of words they don't encounter orally. This one reason why language courses start with the spoken language.