Noah can read with text without the characters above with relative fluency now, although he will stop and decode words as needed as well.
We still sound out the pictures every now and then, especially with the hard words.
I think this is where Noah’s success has been. We kept on sounding out ALL pictures until around lesson 60! It certainly helped him to learn the words.
Most pictures he can put into words immediately. Especially common words like the, boat, etc.
Noah is super excited about the next prize – The FART gun!!!!! Oh my, what are we in for. LOL
Can’t wait to hit level 3.
– W