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My 6 year old figured it out on his own. Same deal with phonics in Kindergarten and he started sounding words out all over the place. Just be prepared for them to be trying to sound things out everywhere as you go.
We recently had a parent teacher conference with his grade 1 teacher and they have a provincial official reading assessment. He's rated at exceeding without us doing anything special. What we do though is read with him every night, we've done it since he was around 2 and we read 4 books before bed.
He can kind of get through some Robert Munsch books now which is a bit beyond his level. Of course I read better at this age, but I was also force fed in HK and it was more of a memorization of groups of letters as words than actually learning them.
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