DD started Reception this year, and last term she 'clicked' with blending sounds, so she can decode words of 2, sometimes 3 syllables.
However, she sometimes really struggles, and today reading her book it took her ages to try to read each word, and she was guessing most of them - wrongly! She couldn't even read the names Wilf and Wilma, despite them appearing on every page.
Is it just the holidays? We read to her, but didn't ask her to read to us, during the holidays, so she is out of practice.
Single words (in word boxes) are noticeably better than sentences.
The thing is, she has some vision problems (one eye doesn't work well, and although the other compensates, it's harder for her to see combinations of letters together). So I'm trying to figure out whether this is part of the normal process of learning to read, or whether it's related to her vision, or even something else entirely ( feels like she's struggling to process the symbols).
If it is her vision, I need to know so we can get some more help - we have already discovered how the vision problems can snowball if left untreated.
What do you all reckon? Normal or worrying?
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Reading difficult - normal learning process or deeper problem?
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nordicwannabe · 11/01/2018 00:13
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