Are sight words or phonics better for teaching a toddler to read?

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Yes, sight words helps them to recognize how to pronounce each word and helps the to go with the flow (ie., continuous learning). This will help to build toddlers confidence.
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Yes you are true...I started to teach the my child and my many of my student like this and many of them started reading stories
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It's always easy and fun to teach children reading through synthetic systematic phonics methods which are backed by science like Jolly Phonics. Sight words reading is nothing but memorizing words which doesn't help children with reading and writing skills.
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