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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would consider a reading tutor who uses an evidence based approach to instruction (Orton- Gillingham / Phonographix).  My child is dyslexic but also had the same anxiety at affecting 5-6 with reading.  Providing your child the tools to read I think over time will help with the anxiety (it did with my child who at 12 can read relatively close to grade level and while anxious about books with a lot of text will now tackle them independently).[/quote]

Thank you. I have emails out to some OG tutors and also wired for reading. Did you do any thing at home? I’m worried about exacerbating the anxiety, so am mostly inclined to lean back, but it’s so hard because I see her struggling and want to help. [/quote]

NP. I second the OG recommendation. Sight words are not helpful. I would stop pushing Bob books. I would focus simply on letter sounds (not names but the sound a letter makes). Play games - can she think of a word that starts with a “buh” sound?  Etc. Ends with a “puh”?  Can she play rhyming with you - bat, cat, etc.? Can you play blending games - she makes an initial sound “buh” and you give her “at” and then she blends to say “bat”?

My DC struggled to read and honestly, one of the worst parenting choices I made was to try to teach him myself. It was very frustrating for him because he felt like a failure to his mother (even tho I was trying to be supportive) every time he couldn’t answer or struggled.  It really wrecked our parent/child relationship for many years.  If I could go back and change things, I would have made my role that of cheerleader and focused on the fun parts of reading - games and reading to him.  And, I would have paid for as much OG as early as I could, even to the point of pulling him out of school for “therapy” several times a week.

YMMV of course. [/quote]

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