Could this be dyslexia or I am over reacting

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DD2 is 5 and in Reception. She is bright and articulate and will talk the hind leg off a donkey. She does well with sounding out words and identifying and making rhymes. She seems to be making good progress on writing. Her physical ability is good and she learnt to ride a bike very quickly, has good balance on a scooter and catches and throws well.

My concern is her reading. She seems to have a real problem in remembering common words. She sounds out very frequently used words such as "the". I have done some work with her on memorising these frequent words and we seem to start at the same base every time.

In a typical early reader story she doesn't seem to remember common words in the story.

I have a secondary school age child and the learning to read experience is so different. Are they just different children who learn at different paces or is there something holding back dd2.

Any advice much appreciated.

My dd is exactly the same, also 5 and in Reception. I've been assured it's normal, but have been finding it frustrating as ds learned to read so much more quickly and easily! Sometimes she'll read a very common word ( the, and, here) on page 1 and have forgotten it by page 2. But apparently nothing to worry about at this stage - very much different children at different stages.