When did your kid read pretty fluently?

[Anonymous]

My kid entered kindergarten knowing how to sound out CVC words. She’s grown a lot in math and other areas in kindergarten, but she still mostly just sounds out CVC words and she’s added some sight words plush a few blends. But she can’t read-read. She can get through Bob books, but not much else. Is this normal doe end of K? When do kids read for pleasure? I thought she’d be able to do elephant and piggy by now, but even those are too hard (too many sight words, silent ‘e’, etc.

Where are your kindergarteners at this point in the year? Does the lightbulb typically go off in 1sr?

[Anonymous]

You have to practice with them everyday, just what they do in school will not be enough at this age. I taught mine reading and writing at 3-4.

[Anonymous]

There is a broad spectrum of normal when they are this young. My current kindergartener is still sounding things out, but she's able to read Elephant and Piggie books. However, my third grader wasn't reading Elephant & Piggie until the summer after first grade.

[Anonymous]

One of mine before K, one clicked mid K, and one gradually got better and I would say was relatively fluent sometime in second? All read fine as middle schoolers.

[Anonymous]

By end of first grade, maybe somewhat slower than their peers at the beginning. I think the Key is reading aloud to them and getting picture books that provide information on the context. Became voracious readers and read at high lexile levels since then.

[Anonymous]

There is a range of normal at that age. My 1st grader is just in the last month or so reading whole books for pleasure - but he skipped straight to chapter books from basically just CVC. All Kindergarten he could read words if you pointed them out, but didn't pick up books and read them straight through.

I wouldn't worry as long as she is progressing and grasping the concepts.

[Anonymous]

Elephant and Piggy are pretty hard - they write them to be funny, not super easy to read.

She sounds on target for end of K. Just keep reading for pleasure and the fluency will click.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You have to practice with them everyday, just what they do in school will not be enough at this age. I taught mine reading and writing at 3-4.

That wasn’t helpful and may have been harmful. OP, don’t do this.

[Anonymous]

My DD is also in K. She has gotten more a bit more fluent in the last couple of months but still needs to sound out some words. For reference, we are on Guided Reading Level D books, about to move to Level E.

In contrast, my DS was a fantastic reader when he started K. By the end of K, he was at least one grade level ahead.

There's just a wide range of reading ability in K.

[Anonymous]

There’s such a range, OP, as others have said. My oldest was a strong reader going into K, my middle kid became a strong reader during first, and my youngest is finishing K and definitely not there yet. They have to really read well by the end of third grade, so you have lots of time.

You can push it and do extra, but you also probably don’t have to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid entered kindergarten knowing how to sound out CVC words. She’s grown a lot in math and other areas in kindergarten, but she still mostly just sounds out CVC words and she’s added some sight words plush a few blends. But she can’t read-read. She can get through Bob books, but not much else. Is this normal doe end of K? When do kids read for pleasure? I thought she’d be able to do elephant and piggy by now, but even those are too hard (too many sight words, silent ‘e’, etc.

Where are your kindergarteners at this point in the year? Does the lightbulb typically go off in 1sr?

Elephant and Piggie is very advanced for someone who is working on CVC and blends. OP you need some decodable readers that focus on the patterns your DD is working on. Our local library has a very good series called Rime to Read. There are others out there.

[Anonymous]

There's a wide range of normal. I taught mine to read the spring before kindergarten and by the following Christmas, he was starting to read Magic Treehouse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid entered kindergarten knowing how to sound out CVC words. She’s grown a lot in math and other areas in kindergarten, but she still mostly just sounds out CVC words and she’s added some sight words plush a few blends. But she can’t read-read. She can get through Bob books, but not much else. Is this normal doe end of K? When do kids read for pleasure? I thought she’d be able to do elephant and piggy by now, but even those are too hard (too many sight words, silent ‘e’, etc.

Where are your kindergarteners at this point in the year? Does the lightbulb typically go off in 1sr?

Elephant and Piggie is very advanced for someone who is working on CVC and blends. OP you need some decodable readers that focus on the patterns your DD is working on. Our local library has a very good series called Rime to Read. There are others out there.

Dear Dragon is an excellent decodable reader series. It's at our library.

[Anonymous]

For my son, it clicked in the middle of 1st grade. By the beginning of second grade, he was in the highest reading group.

Early reading is not indicative of anything. Being able to decode is more important than recognizing sight words.

[Anonymous]

Huge range. One kid loooved books from day 1 and couldn't get enough and was reading actually fluently before kindergarten. The other hated books, never wanted to sit through one being read to her ever and she's juuuust starting to get there in 2nd grade.