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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope my son will be able to read by K - he is 4.5 now and I am working with him but strangely, although he can sound out the individual letters of a word, he can't decipher the word by doing that - for example, he can sound out the letters in the word "cart," but even after stating all the sounds in a row, doesn't associate them with the word cart.  He can sight read short words like big, dog, cat, mom, dad, the, bus, etc. that come up often.  [/quote]

I was always terrible with phonics, even though I taught myself to ready at about 4 and was a high-enough level reader to be obsessed with the Boxcar Children and Babysitter's Club during kindergarten.  Now my daughter does some sounding out at her pre-k program, and I'm amazed when she can turn some of those sounds into a word.  The sounds just sound different when you say them as a word than when you sound them out individually.

My 3.5 yo can identify the sounds of many letters and has a couple words memorized.  I don't know whether she'll be really reading by K or not.[/quote]

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