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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son just could not do sight words.  It was brutal because he felt stupid.  Once her learned proper phonics he was fine though, but it took longer than most kids.  He’s a fluent reader now in 4th.  [/quote]

Because there are actually very few sight words. Most words do follow the phonetic rules. “Th” has 2 possible sounds, “s” has 2 possible sounds. It’s amazing what kids can decide with an explicit, sequential reading curriculum based in the science of reading. There is t a reason to memorize 100’s of sight words and it sets kids back later when they don’t have the fundamental skills. [/quote]

+1, my kid's program uses sight words but only to support fluency. Like the goal is to develop sight identification of the most common words simply to help the kids learn to read more quickly, which makes reading more fun. The phase when they are sounding everything out is tough, especially when they are used to being read to a lot, because the distance between what they are doing and what they are familiar with as "reading" is really far apart.

But even a lot of the sight words start by sounding them out. Then there may be an adjustment of the pronunciation (ie. learning that "of" is pronounced "uv" not "off") and that's the memorization part. But it's still based in phonics and recognition of letter sounds and combinations. The goal is never to just have kids memorizing a bunch of sight words so they can look at a sentence and comprehend it without any phonemic decoding.[/quote]

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