DD turned 5 in Oct and started Reception in Sept. She's been doing phonics since she was 3 and has a great phonic awareness. She loves writing, for instance the other day they learned at school 'we' so she came home and wrote: 'we hav a cat' which I thought was good. She's been writing her name for a long time.
If I ask her how do you spell pond...she'll go: p-o-n-d. And do on.
She is a fast learner usually, she learned all the sight words, about 25 so far (push, pull, put, the, and, I etc.)
HOWEVER, she finds reading very frustrating. She comes home with books that have simple Cvc words ...and all she does is segmenting and blending. We read every day for 10-15 mins and she doesn't seem to get past the segmenting of even the simplest words. I mean she's been writing 'cat' for ages but when it comes in a book she goes c-a-t. Plus half way through the book she gets really frustrated, I suspect the graphemes start jumbling up and she starts mis-reading. Then she says she doesn't want to do it. I feel there is no progress there. She gets very emotional and hates it.
Plus the pace is very slow. It takes her quite a bit to read 'Dad sat in it'.
There is a strong genetic link from her fathers side to dyslexia and I have been worrying about it for quite a while so I guess I might be reading into it a bit too much. Her dad is an avid reader now, but his spelling is very poor.
Can anyone relate to this?