My DD's 9 and for so long, she's struggled to read, but over the past 6 months she's suddenly grown her wings.
I am SO relieved!
She was slow to learn her alphabet and hated phonics...it didn't seem to help her.
We moved abroad two years ago and as kids start school later here, she wasn't so behind but last year, she was behind AGAIN and I was getting worried.
Books are so important to me and I had almost accepted that she found it too much of a chore..but bang! She's suddenly very fluent indeed.
9 seems quite late to "bloom" to me. Is it normal? My older DD read easily and early so it was quite a surprise when DD2 found it so tricky.
All that I can think has changed is that we managed to get on top of her sleeping issues (she wouldn't sleep alone and often stayed awake late and so was tired)
So could it be that simple? More sleep? Or is it just that she needed to mature a bit?