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There was a discussion on this board about a year ago that ties into this but OF course I can't find it. Basically it was a discussion about gifted children and their preference of sight words over phonics. Not all are like this, but many tend to learn through memorization versus learning the phonics. My DD has comprehended phonics from a very early age but she reads through memorization.