Guest guest Posted August 8, 2001 Report Share Posted August 8, 2001 Hi, Just a question for those of you who have faced this subject. My son is 7, and has been sight reading for about two years. I has been suggested recently to go to a phonics based program since he would be theoretically able to acquire many more words sounding them out then just memorizing by sight. What have others experience been with phonics. I would like to try out the phonics approach BEFORE we invest in a costly system, and find out IF he can or cannot handle the sounding out of words. Is there a way to test IF this would be a viable approach for him? He is a very language challenged child, and I somehow cannot picture him figuring out how to sound out words, it seems too complicated for him. He is not conversational, but can read sight words. He also can read sentences, but does not yet have a comprehension of what the sentence means. Any thoughts on this from parents who have taught phonics? cate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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