Treading Water

I don't think that there has been much of a significant change since the last time I posted two weeks ago. I worked a week of nights and so I wasn't able to do as much reading with my son. He's still in this phase where he can sound out individual words when asked, but doesn't really have a large memorized sight word vocabulary.  Sometimes it is a struggle to get him to read what the books actually say rather than what he is guessing them to say. To help with this, I'm trying have him focus more on pointing to each word as he reads it so that he has to register.  I haven't done the flash cards for over a month now.  I made an excel sheet to record the number of "memorized" sight words he knows because I thought it might be fun to look back at it someday.  So far, it's been a plateau.