his teacher has been surprised at how quickly DS can read words (including big, complex words) but says DS is really resistant when it comes to sounding out words or doing any sort of phonics exercises.
This is my DS too. He wasn't reading as early as yours - instead he started sounding out basic words at three. He has a language processing disorder, so I'm not sure if he fits with this discussion... but now at the age of 8 he's very similar in that he prefers big, "chunky" words - he just remembers them - over smaller, simple and phonetic words. He'll mess up the easy words (i.e. say "saw" instead of "was" for example), but is quite solid and consistent with the larger, non-phonetic words.
