Mr W (3.5y) has a lot of sight words, some of which are polysyllabic and can read just about anything he knows most of the words.
His verbal vocabulary is nearing an adult's and he can pronounce any word that I can.
The problem now is to get him to sound stuff out so he can link his verbal vocab to the printed word. This is why phonics is crucial.
They have been working on phonics at school and he is picking it up from there and we are working on it at night. This is the first "disciplined" or "hothouse" thing we have worked on with him.
