[Jack Straw from Wichita]

But by fourth or fifth grade, once basic phonics are mastered, sight reading has to be the main focus of literacy instruction. At that stage, insisting kids read phonetically would be akin to insisting they handle multiplication problems as repeated addition. No one reading this post or any of yours was reading phoneme by phoneme (except maybe some Trump supporters 😀 ). Sight reading has to be incorporated into elementary instruction and shouldn't be tossed out with the bath water.

[Robert DeLong]

I'll defer to you because my knowledge on the subject is very limited. However, I do believe teaching your children to read at any early age is not only sound but smart advice as well. It not only rewards the child, but society too, at least the majority of the time.

That was the whole point of my original post.