Backstory: DD (reception, almost 5) was born profoundly deaf. She got cochlear implants at 18 months, and has done really well (with a lot of therapy and support) to catch up her language, and then some! She’s a really bright child, in a supportive mainstream school with a lot of support (teacher of the deaf, full time 1:1 TA) that has been pivotal to her success. I’m not claiming her to be some kind of gifted child!!! But I am really proud of her, and I think she’s quite advanced.
Deaf children sometimes have trouble with phonics, but she really hasn’t, she’s just flown with it. She knows almost all of the sounds (we’ve been doing the read write inc sounds, as they do rwi at her school, and she knows all of the set 1 & 2 sounds, and lots of alternative ways of writing the vowel sounds).
She’s getting level 3 (yellow?) reading books (biff and chip etc ones) from school. They usually give her 2 a week, but she tears through them and barely has to sound anything out, a lot of the words she knows from memory now. They’re not at all difficult for her. I think she needs to be a bit more challenged, and we’ve been going through the read write inc little books at home, she’s just read all the orange ones, which were a bit better at challenging her, but largely didn’t cause her much difficulty.
I want to keep challenging her, especially as she really loves reading, she wants to read all the bedtime story books and is always asking me for new books.
Any ideas or tips of what I can do to help challenge her at home? I have been looking at level 4-6 chip etc book sets on eBay, but I don’t want to undermine what the school are doing (I am going to ask the teacher and ToD about this when term starts again). She’s trying to read everything and anything at the moment, so I feel like I should channel that into age appropriate reading books!
(I do appreciate this may come across as a stealth boast about how great my DD is 
and yes, she is a little star!)