At my daughter's preschool the teachers will rarely prompt her to read to them. More often, they encourage her to spell out the names of pictured items with alphabet letters. I've attended one parent teacher conference, and the teacher stated that she had many students who could read well, but spell poorly, and she wanted to make my daughter more well rounded. DD reads English phonetically anyway (she was a big fan of Starfall). She can practice her recall when she reads Chinese.