Originally Posted by ellemenope
Originally Posted by islandofapples
So, perhaps I will just keep reading to DD and we will work on learning some sight words and eventually learning some rules when she needs to sound out more advanced words.

Definitely keep reading to your DD. I wouldn't stress learning sight words over phonics. I would just follow her lead. My DD was very drawn to learning phonics first. She was figuring it all out from the beginning and wanted nothing to do with whole word learning. Now, we never did anything like "your baby can read" or flashcards. Maybe if we had
she would have went that direction. All I know is that by the time she turned two she saw "cat" as /c/ /a/ /t/, and never just /cat/, even though it seemed to me like it would be super easy for her to just memorize some words. It did come a few months later,
which was when I considered her a reader.

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Totally agree, forcing a style the kid is not comfortable with is so fruitless, following their lead, whether it comes to focus on learning style, or what to focus on, has been so much better for us. Although it took me awhile and help from this board to recognize the differences between what I thought was necessary and what he needed to do. My
DS hated phonics but now as an advanced reader is more open to me showing him how to sound out. And in his pre-k they were doing letter sounds and stuff, which he didn't need but actually fleshed out what he intuitively knew. Going back and filling in is so much better than pushing what they aren't comfortable with.

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