DS4 has been trying to learn to read for a few months now and he seems right on the cusp, but just isn't making the leap. He can sound out pretty much any word that follows regular phonetic rules, he has a decent amount of sight words (some of them he only does when he isn't thinking about it) and is very interesting in doing it. I suspect that he's starting to read but just doesn't realize that he's doing it, he looks at books at night before falling asleep and the next day seems to know things from them but says it's from looking at the pictures (mostly dinosaur books). He asks me to point out words while I'm reading to him and DS6, things like "fantastic" and "thoughtful", not little words.
Is there anything else I can do to help him? He has no interest in the BOB type books, he wants to read real stories, but doesn't have the patience to sit with me and work through them. It's frustrating to watch him want this so badly and trying so hard and not know how to help him!
