fingers so that my daughter can see the whole word as we say the whole word with out sounding each letter out. the way with our reading..........to her......... she gets to see and hear how reading is actually done by words not individual letters now that she is older. after reading the book through to her for a week we had her read the same book back to us, doing the same thing having her finger follow the words she is saying. eventually we will move into reading with out the finger following by using a piece of paper showing each line.
in other words we are teaching her sight word 