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[quote=Anonymous]My 5 y/o daughter knows around 40-50 words by sight, with a year to go before kindergarten. I believe she is gifted, but not because she has memorized some words and has the phonics skills to decode many more. What's far more significant is her expansive vocabulary and grammatically-correct use of words like "intended", "concerned", "differently", etc., as well as her ability to listen to hour-long stories and accurately retell parts of them or answer questions about key details. Reading is an algorithmic process, but it is not higher-level thinking.

As to the sight words, I think it's best to combine phonics with a high-frequency word list like Dolch or Fry. My daughter was definitely struggling with having to sound "the" and "and" out every time she encountered them, which made reading virtually impossible. But the way we've been solving that problem is through a lot of repetition in the words she uses phonics to decode. I'd recommend reorganizing the Dolch list around the phonics skills you are working on right now. For example, one thing I'll do differently with my son is have him do a lot more practice with the VC words on the Dolch list when we start blending. Those words are scattered all across the list, but key words to start with would be: in, is, it, up, am, at, on, an, as, us, if. No reason to teach "up" to a preschooler but wait until the Third Grade to tackle "if"...[/quote]

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