Also, I know my opinion is unpopular with some people, but in the absence of issues, I don't think self-taught readers who can read at 4th grade+ in K need to explicitly be taught phonics. I happen to have a very, very clear memory of going through the phonics curriculum, as a child who learned to read on her own at 4. It is not a positive memory. My kids did not need this either, and my DS's current teachers acknowledge it. (DS has been excused from a computer-based phonics program that the rest of class does, for instance.)