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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even if she doesn't appear tired, I would try earlier in the day - I learned from my friends, that was their biggest redo if they had to do it over again.  After a long school day, we often underestimate how mentally tired they are - especially if processing takes more work than a normal kid.      Summer maybe a time that you can switch when you do that.  Weekends are great.    Agree that you need far more then 5 to 10 minutes a day, so you may need to chunk it up during the day.

I'm a huge fan of whisper sync on Kindle - though my DC is older.  Its audio but highlights each wordand  you can adjust font to be bigger.  The school and I saw a huge improvement in DC's reading - as well as comprehension and vocabulary.  For the kindle time, we had her read at least one grade level above, sometimes 2 grade levels.   DC was proud to "read" the books that other kids were into and would "read" hours.   It was a real confidence boost and brought back the love of reading.    It can get pricey, especially if you are doing a lot of shorter books.    You can buy the previous Fire Kindle version which amazon often runs on sale.   I don't think it works on the print only kindle or iPad.

Other things to try to "extend time",  in slightly harder books, you read one page, she reads the next (with your help).  Or in a early chapter book, you pick out the easy pages for her to read in a chapter (shorter pages/ pages with dialougue), and you read the harder ones.    Magic tree house  (thru book 28) is a good series for that and also is a series, where the author repeats the same words over and over and over.   (tedious to listen to , but works).

good luck
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Kindle is very expensive once you start buying books.  If a child is dyslexic and has an IEP, they have a "print disability" and can easily be qualified by a school special education teacher for Bookshare.  (https://www.bookshare.org/_/membership/qualifications)  It is free to those who qualify thanks to the Department of Ed as part of an effort to get publishers to provide print access to those with disabilities.  It's basically a huge electronic library of books that can be read on computers, laptops, iPads, etc.  (but not Kindle as far as I'm aware).  You download the software and once qualified simply access the books electronically for download.  You can manipulate type size and color of typeface and background as well as highlight sentences or words to be read by text to speech with a variety of computer voices.  There is every book your child could imagine on there, including textbooks.  One drawback is that is not as interesting to Browse on Bookshare as it is to browse in a bookstore.  We still go to the library and bookstore to find books but then we download the titles through Bookshare.

We also love Learning Ally.  It is $120 or so a year.  Similarly, you can manipulate type size and highlight portions or all of the text to be read aloud.  The difference is these are "audiobooks" with human reader voices.

Both are valuable for helping with reading.  Sometimes it is useful to be read to entirely, sometimes to try to read oneself and only use the text to speech for help with difficult words.

OP, I think if your child has ADHD, then attention is likely playing a role in her variable performance.  But, also, IME, with our dyslexic child, "fluency" is a problem.  By this I mean the ability to find pieces of information in the brain and get them out of the mouth in sync with speech and thought.  Our child has a lot of "umms" and "errs" and "like" pauses in speech and often uses the wrong word (lifeguard when he means security guard) and other types of "word-finding" difficulties.  He also has difficulty pulling math facts out in rapid recall, even though he's great at math and definitely knows the facts.  His IQ is very high but his "processing speed" is very low.  Overall, this kind of "rapid-naming" ability is part of what is required to read fluently and easily.  IMO, my kids brain is not wired to really be able to do "rapid-naming" well.  Although practice helps, he needs more practice of a more explicit nature before he can develop the fluency necessary at a particular skill.  Once he's got it, it sticks though.  
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