Cuing and Phonics

You need both Cuing and Phonics. That's the best program. Not one or the other, but both combined. Because phonics helps you sound the word out, but cuing helps you look at the surrounding words and paragraphs, to intuit a meaning, so you don't have to be running to the dictionary all the time--basically, using what's surrounding the text, to assume a word's meaning. That's how I got so good at reading. Sometimes, you just got to ignore a word or assume its meaning. If it's absolutely necessary to know to comprehend something--and you can be taught how to do that, too--you look it up. Also having a core intuition of latin prefix and suffixes helps too. That's a huge part of reading retention, learning how to break words down into their phonyms and understand its meaning through that.