It's official. SHE CAN REEEEAD!!!! She read a book full of sight word sentences today without any help from me. Scholastic makes a series of phonics based beginner's readers that can be bought at Barnes & Noble. Another method I bought, "Your Baby Can Read" does work, if you favor the whole word approach to reading. It uses the whole word and recognition of it using pictures and sound. I preferred the "Click N Kids" model because it's phonics based. By using phonics, I feel, the child is better equipped to read because they learn word structure - something the whole word approach doesn't address.
