Hello very smart ladies of Mumsnet. I’m curious about the learning to read process. My DD is in reception.
She has gone from learning single letter sounds M A etc, to blending the sounds C - A - T. Etc. all fine.
now she’s moving through the RWI programme with the different books. She recognises some words really well- especially the red words of course- like AND and THE. Here she sees it and doesn’t need to sound it out, she just knows it by sight reading.
but lots of other words, she still needs to sound out. I see her fluency getting better, but it’s quite a slow process.
how does this work ? Does it just go on like this for ages ?
she seems to be moving through the book bands and the sentences are getting longer, but I do wonder how she’s actually processing as I can’t always tell that it’s much better. She’s on the pink books now, if that helps. Which should mean she’s doing alright, but I just can’t always see it when she reads.
it’s probably not helped by the fact that she often doesn’t want to do her reading practice and isn’t in the mood for it, so she doesn’t really try.