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[quote=Anonymous]My daughter is finishing up second grade now and a year ago was in a very similar spot to yours. Agreed that your daughter sounds like she is on grade level and also that there is no need to worry. When my kid was in kindergarten they actually put her in remedial reading because she wasn't "fluent" enough with her alphabet (i.e. couldn't rattle off the letters quickly enough in the standardized evaluation). I panicked and of course treated it like a "problem" because that's what the school seemed to think. Started forcing her into it more, practicing letters, etc. And about 3 months in I realized I was doing so much more harm than good because I was contributing to negative associations with reading. I changed approach and focused on making sure she loved stories first and foremost and trusted that the reading would follow when she was ready, and that's been true; in the last year she's had a few big leaps in ability though is still easily daunted by things that seem difficult, as you describe. Her teacher this year is (1) appalled she was ever in remedial and (2) first and foremost an encourager of loving literature. She tells us regularly that if you make it a chore, it will feel like one to the kid and not be something they learn to love. I would encourage your daughter to read stuff that is comfy like Elephant & Piggy and then do a bunch of reading to her, including things that you kind of wish she could read herself (eventually she will then reread them herself but be familiar with the story so less of her brain is focused on comprehension and she can get practice with the mechanics of reading). We also got a Yoto player and our kid listens to a lot of audiobooks (also from library). You can even get audiobooks as well as the print version and then she can follow along with the text. These are all good ways to develop the affection for it and the rest will fall into place.[/quote]

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