DS at 7 did badly in SATs. At 10 was still on very basic maths and not really reading and writing. Thought he’d never sit GCSEs
Clearly bright- great at LEGO, listened to long complicated audio books. Asked really difficult questions 🤣
Didn’t get English GCSE, should have been entered for the C paper but his teacher ‘wanted to give him a chance to show what he could do’.
Then doing a BTEC, all the pennies dropped. The cogs whirred, the connections happened and he really took off. Got his various English qualifications.
He didn’t finish his degree in CompScience, but has a great job in computers and can do anything he sets his mind to. Reads for pleasure, and researches tech related stuff.
You wouldn’t believe he failed English first time as he has well above average literacy skills now.
Keep doing interesting things with her, keep her learning and curious, and do all the skills based stuff in lots of different ways. Don’t hold her back until the basics are secure. Both my boys skipped the basics in favour of higher level skills that in theory they weren’t ready for. Something will click.
Both my boys I had to intervene and get them off the ‘standard’ path at school. DS1 was taken out of foreign language lessons and given extra time on dyslexia computer games. DS2 was allowed to progress with the rest of the class rather than being held back while he secured basic skills (high frequency words). He kept up with the higher level work and the basics landed on their own eventually.