Learning to read, the leap from phonics to words, any advice?

[littleducks]

DD has just about learnt her whole alphabet plus the sh/ch/th phonics, she has cards and knows them all she does 'read, write inc' at preschool

She can blend the sounds to 'read' cvc words like cat/mat/sat etc and makes these and plays word games with her cousins with the letter cards

She has started to 'read' the ORT songbirds first level books, Am I Top Cat/Bob Bug and can sound out each indivual letter then blend to make word then make sentence (tis painfully slow for me but she loves it )

I was taught to read with Peter and Jane and sso sight read words rather thean sounding them out so im a bit unsure now. Do i let her read through these books, continuing to sound out each indivual letter or should she be learining the word? I also have some superphonics books but i think they are a bit too hard atm so am keeping them aside for a bit.

Please note, I am not pushing her, am not too bothered when she learns to read but she is desperate too so I want to support her while she is keen.

some words you can't learn to read by phonics and sounding them out. There are lists of them, high frequency sight words for reception, year 1, year 2 etc.
These are words like: the, some, come, etc, also some words that you use a lot like mum, dad etc.
You could buy some flash cards (or make some) or games with these words on, she basically needs to learn to read these words just by looking at them and this will really speed up her reading.
I am a teacher and this is how we teach reading, phonics together with learning some words by sight!
Hope that helps

if you look at this and click the download pdf file document, on the first page is a list of the frequency words that it is suggested you learn first as they are the most useful.

If you're sounding out phonics it;'s really important to keep the sounds short. So M would be 'mm' not 'muh' etc.

thanks for the replies, i do actually have some cards with simple word on that i can stick around the house for her to learn from sight.So i will do that.
She knows her 'pure phonic' thingmygiggy sounds very well (they are very keen on it at preschool) and is able to blend them well, I guess im unsure as to when she will stop needing to sound out every word, when will she realise she just read it in the previous sentence? I suppose it takes a while? I just dont want to expect too much of her

Have you thought of teaching her a different way? Rather then showing her the whole word to remember, show her a method that she can use for all words, there's less to remember this way. I taught my son to look at a word and say each letter phonetically, then squeeze them together without the spaces between the letters, ie, cat = c a t, then get rid of the spaces so they blend. This way it's easier to read other words using this principal so they don't have to learn a load of different words IYSWIM. 'The' words are a little different, just teach the as one word.

That is how she is blending the words at the moment.

So its ok to just let her work her way through books like that/

Yes, just find one that she finds really interesting, my son used to love jokes, he started reading Mr Men books then moved on to joke books, far more interesting then the ORT

She is currently enjoying the ORT, they are the Songbirds ones written by 'The Gruffalo' author so mildly amusing, im sure they were more boring when i was at school

Meg the cat IIRC.

DS is the same sort of age, and is loving Reading Eggs online which has a nice approach.

The Allan Alhberg Read Nose readers are great fun - I just got a set from the Book People, and DS thinks they are hilarious

Havent come across Meg the cat yet just Bob the Bug but i expect she will appear soon ing , am going to google reading eggs and the ahlberg books