She's a winter birthday. She started to sight read at nursery, the year before she started school. She has a good memory and seems to learn visually, so she was very competent at that.
Reception reading seems to have left her confused and lacking in confidence. Whilst she might be able to read the word 'good', for example, if she sees the word Goodnight she doesn't see the good part and makes a wild and tenuous guess at what the word is. She's not even that confident with all her letter sounds.
A few months ago something seemed to click and she was able to sound out CVC words - but then she gets a reading book with so many words in that are not sight words she knows and don't contain many CVC words and she looses all her confidence and makes the wild guesses again. Sometimes she seems to be going backwards.
She's perfectly capable in every other way but with reading, she seems to be making little progress and when she does make progress, it is easily eradicated by new word overload in the books that are sent home.
I wonder if she requires a different approach and if this is something that I could help her with (in a non-pushy way!) over the summer holidays.
I'd appreciate hearing the experience of others.
Thank you