Daughter was home-schooled until 3rd grade, so she was already reading at a 6th grade level by then, due to me teaching her phonics, not sight reading.
My son has been in public school since Kindergarten. They taught sight reading. I ended up supplementing it by teaching him phonics in the evenings. He’s 4th grade now, and reads 6th grade level. He hates every minute of reading, and it’s a World War level struggle to get him to do it, but I’ll be damned if my kids will be among the illiterate masses.
give him the sports pages and Mad magazine...he’ll start loving reading....