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[quote=Anonymous]Spelling list looks like it is focusing on -ar. School uses IMSE, which is OK, I think? The students with reading problems I know seem to do OK with it. (I have a very strong reader who I worked with at home when she was younger, so to be honest I haven't paid much attention to what's happening at school, reading-wise.)

Though it is a promising sign that she's sounding things out, instead of flailing, I do think that your child could really benefit from increased support at home. Important thing is to step back, to build confidence and fluency.

I liked Victory Drill, a clever fluency builder which gives assortments of words, not sentences, to sound out.

Mildred Kerr's "First Fairy Tales" is quite good for fluency, as is Coe and Christie's "Story Hour Reader, Book One" (I was not impressed with the rest of the series.)

McGuffey's Readers are not as engaging as the ones above, but they are much more structured, and it is possible that is what she needs. But if she does hit the wall: All About Reading is about as good as you can get at home without hiring an Orton-Gillingham trained reading specialist. [/quote]

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