actually, I should correct myself ... he will sound out unknown words, just won't read the word after that because he's not familiar with it but he will sound out all the letters when it's a new word to him that he doesn't recognize yet. DS2 is self-teaching himself so I never know where he's really at. But as long as he's having fun with it, it's fine with me! lol
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... sorry if this is a double post. I posted it couple minutes ago but it's not showing up for me