My 5yr old is in yr one and we are really struggling with her reading and I am starting to get quite worried.
Tonight went like this.
Her twin sister(DD2) finished reading and DD1 eagerly comes over with her book ready to read. 20 mins earlier we had been looking at b & d and remembering which one is which. I have used a large mirror as a black board and it's all still up there. She looks to read Dinosaur and starts with "B". Ok fine, I help her right and we move on. Then she is almost contorting with effort just to get herself to focus on the book and because she seemingly can't, starts guessing at the word. each guess is wrong and we have tears before we even start. we start to slowly build up the word, "di" , "din", "Dino". I ask her, "ok, so what have we got so far? " she says "driont!" and we start all over again. When she eventually gets it, two words later we have dinosaur again and it is as if she is seeing the word for the first time. She is in a phonics intervention group at school but I feel as if she has gone backwards since probably november and she was behind to start with. Her sight seems fine and she was tested at school and passed. She is really clever in surprising ways and she can tell you a great story but reading & therefore writting is just not happening, she is also behind in numeracy.
Am worried over nothing or is there something I should be looking into?