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[quote=Anonymous]“Gifted” as a label is a whole kettle of worms that provokes a great deal of hostility and only rarely offers any benefit.  Most of the time, it’s irrelevant, anyway.

Kids regardless of the label (or lack thereof) should be exposed to as many things as possible and encouraged to pursue their interests.  They should be given challenges and enough education that they will be eventually prepared pursue any opportunities they wish.  Knowledge isn’t a limited resource that has to be rationed, and education isn’t a competition, much less a zero sum game.  The more things learned by more kids, the better it will be gor our society as a whole.

If your child is showing an interest in reading, that’s fantastic.  Learning all the sight words is certainly an impressive feat of memory for a young child.

Generally, I recommend avoiding sight words all together when learning to read and sticking strictly to phonics as a better method for instruction. If your child is able to use their knowledge of sight words to read fluently, that’s great, they may have subconsciously picked up enough phonics to fill in the gaps.  If they’re still learning to read, I highly recommend you switch to focusing on phonics.  It may be frustrating to them at first going from reading stories from words they’ve memorized to sounding out words, but it’s a critical skill.  There are thousands of words in the English language, but only 44 phonemes (sounds) and less than 300 letter or letter combinations to spell those sounds.  That may sound like a lot, but it’s far less to learn than memorizing individual words. Moreover, if you learn a list of sight words then you can read that particular list of sight words. If you learn how to sound out words, then you can read anything you could understand if you heard it.

Whether or not your child is gifted, it sounds like they’ve had a wonderful start.  Just remember to keep it fun and don’t let it become a chore.  At this stage it’s far more important that they love whatever they’re learning, and consider learning itself as fun and exciting, than that they learn specific academic content.  [/quote]

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