My DS now 5.5 was an early whole word memorizer, we never worried about it. like Mr. W DS has a huge, polysyllabic vocab and will often try to match unknown words with words he has heard. Someone on another thread had a hilarious example of what theIR dc thought the word sounded like, mine has moments like that too. DS has leapt enormously from those early days but I have noticed that some phonics ideas might help - so I started mentioning some of those things from starfall which I will never get out of my head - when two vowels go a walking the first one does the talking - but we did them so young he actually doesn't remember them. So this thread reminded me that I was thinking of going back on starfall just to watch a few of those again, and see if it helps. Or I might just leave it alone - when his pre-k teachers would do some stuff, he seemed to find it new and somewhat interesting, go figure! Basically he is in really short period of time getting better and better at matching his verbal vocab with his reading vocab. What he never does is ask what a written word means, whereas if you use a word he doesn't know he will always ask for a definition.
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