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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son is in kindergarten. He entered kinder reading at a second grade level. I formally started teaching him to read when he turned four. I used to teach first grade and I wanted the joy in teaching him how to read. It is amazing to see the progress. I also wanted to make sure he was taught using phonics and not taught to rely on learning sight words. By 4 1/2 he could read easy readers like Are You My Mother? / Go, Dog, Go / Fly Guy etc.  If you want to teach him and he wants to learn, go for it. It is a lot easier to teach reading one-to-one as compared to teaching a whole class. Hooked on Phonics will work, you can also get the Bob Books too.[/quote]

I think it's good to balance sight words with phonics because there are some high-frequency words that it just helps to know so kids can build up their reading fluency.

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Most sight words can be regularly decoded. Some kids that learn too many sight words end up guessing at words when reading instead of learning how to sound out words. It is better to teach a kid that "the" can be broken up into "th" and the long "e" sound because it is an open syllable. I would rather my kids go at a slower pace in developing reading fluency and not learn sight words in order to have a really strong phonics base. I taught him how to read because I didn't want him memorizing 100 sight words in kindergarten. The time is better spent on learning phonograms. [/quote]

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