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[quote=Anonymous]Our daughter was like this - I thought it was laziness, but when her spelling also wasn't improving we had her tested.  Sure enough, she's dyslexic. She can read pretty well, but the way she reads is inefficient. She sounds out each word phonetically (she has a terrible memory for irregular words). Also she generally reads only the first few letters at the beginning and end of each word. So, she'll confuse fried for friend, cloud for could, tried for tired, stared for started, etc.  She would just gloss over very irregular words like dough or unique.

To motivate her (and also to see how she was reading), we started reading aloud round robin. She reads a page, then I read a page. That way I can catch her if she's misreading or glossing over a word. Also, it models fluency for her.  This approach has been very helpful to get 
over her reluctance to read, and she will read chapter books on her own now.

If understanding spellings is an issue, you can get a Franklin Speller, a little handheld device for confirming spellings, and it will vocalize the word so the child can hear how it's pronounced.  This has been great for making DD more independent.
 
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