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[quote=Anonymous]I she in kindergarten or still in preschool? If K, what are they doing to help her? Do they do phonics at school? With early readers, especially any child who is encountering issues with decoding, phonics is essential and should be engaged daily. If she's not getting that at school, I'd engage a program like Hooked on Phonics. Some small percent of kids just kind of learn to read by osmosis, but most kids need to be taught fundamentals and if the school isn't doing it, you have to supplement.

If she's in K and getting phonics instruction and still at the level you are talking about, I'd be reaching out to the school for an assessment ASAP because even if it's not clicking yet, a child receiving regular phonics instruction should be able to shared phonemes across words (cat, hat, mat, sat) and at least feel comfortable sounding out cvc (consonant-vowel-consonant) words, even if it's not fluent yet. Kids develop at different rates on this, but those are some fundamentals I'd expect to see from a child nearing the end of kindergarten who is receiving proper instruction.

If she's still in PK, I'd continue reading to her and offering fun, engaging pre-literacy content. Jack Hartmann videos on YouTube are great for this, where it's songs that really focus on the sounds the letters make. Preschools generally do not teach reading yet, so kids who are reading in preschool either took to it unusually easily, or have received instruction at home, or most likely both. But I wouldn't panic about a 5 yr old finishing up preschool who isn't sounding out words. I'd stay aware and watch her as she starts to get proper reading instruction, but not necessarily assume anything was wrong because if in preschool, she likely has not been expected to do much more than demonstrate her comfort level with words and letters (i.e. knowing upper and lower case letters by sight, and knowing most of the sounds they make with decent confidence).[/quote]

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