My daughter is just 5 and has started in Year 1. Since the middle of reception I have wondered whether there is something more going on with her than just finding reading difficult. In reception, her teacher commented that she struggled to retain learning; she can see the same word repeatedly on consecutive pages and still not recognise it, after sounding it out. It took her ages to learn all her phonics, and even longer to work out how to 'blend' sounds to read.
She has just moved schools and her teacher spoke to me today about how behind her peers she is with reading. I've been shocked to find out she seems to have forgotten what she did know at the end of last year. She was struggling to recognise 'n' today. I wonder if this is our fault though, as I was in hospital for a month over summer, and poor DH struggled to keep everything together and reading was NOT a priority.
And she absolutely HATES reading. We have to force her or bribe her to sit down to read. And she often just cries when we make her look at a book. She finds it so stressful (as do we.). We've tried reading apps, which seem to really help at the time, but she forgets what she's learned ( such as how 'ai' sounds) by the time we see it in a book, despite her seeing it repeatedly 10 mins earlier.
She's left handed which her teacher says makes dyslexia more likely too. We've always affectionately called her a 'dizzy daydream' as she is forgetful and vague all the time, wondering if this could be related though?
Any thoughts? Is it too early to see if she can be assessed? Who would do it? I'm having a proper meeting with the school next week to discuss.
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Too early to be considering dyslexia?
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Cherubneddy1 · 13/09/2016 21:25
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