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[quote=Anonymous]DD struggles with the "I Can Read" Level 2 books: the ones with a few lines of very simple text with a few long words and large pictures. She reads all monosyllabic words well and quickly but apparently cannot tackle multi-syllabic words by herself. The problem may be that she reads too fast and does not take the time to pause at the long words to study each sound/syllable. She recognizes (or not) the first syllable and then "invents" or mumbles the rest and rushes on to the end of the sentence. For example, today she read "important" in lieu of "empty", which totally changed the meaning of the sentence. She does this for practically every long word! When I ask what she understood in that particular sentence - no answer. I make her go back and pronounce each sound in the long word, and try to make her appreciate how much better it is to actually have a sentence that makes sense, but she really does not seem to care.

She is starting to include some expression in her reading, when reading dialogue for instance, but I feel that this also is an issue. Most of the time, for example, she does not fully lower her voice and mark the period at the end of her sentences.

First of all, is this level of reading within the range of normal at her age? What would you do? Clearly she does not like to read, and sometimes our daily reading practice feels like such a chore...

Thank you for all of your suggestions![/quote]

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