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Canmom's post reminds me. Does anyone know if there are any theories on why some kids start reading via learning sight words (ie they might start noticing THE, AND, FROM, FOR, IS, etc before anything else) while other kids pick up decoding meaningful words first. Both my older kids, even the dyslexic, struggled more with THE than any other word but least with complex but contextually meaningful words.