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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DO NOT WORRY. She is in kindergarten.  I teach first grade and I do not expect that students will come in the door reading.  If they know the letters and letter sounds, and are starting to put them together that's perfect.
For a very large number of first graders, the "light comes on" sometime during the first half of the school year.  Sometimes it happens over winter break.  But it usually happens.  If your daughter is at a "C" she is already doing the things I mentioned above.  If she gets frustrated do more reading TO her than having her read.  The down side of the early levels is that the text they can read is super boring. Does she like to play on the computer or tablet? I love starfall.com and the starfall apps for beginning readers.  It works on beginning sight words and basic decoding.  Read to and with her.  Read her a chapter book such as my father's dragon or charlotte's web and discuss what is happening in the story.  Work on comprehension and identifying things like beginning, middle, and end and cause and effect.  
We talk about strategies when you come to a word you don't know.  Many early and struggling readers just randomly guess when they come to a word they don't know. We talk about if their guess makes sense- does it start with the same letter as the unknown word? Does it have the same sounds? Does it make sense in the sentence?

I wouldn't push her- you don't want her to dislike reading. I would do lots of reading type activities without pushing her to hard to actually have to do the reading. 
If she is struggling in first grade, her teacher will have strategies and programs to help her. Many many schools (every one I've taught at thus far) have first grade specific programs for struggling readers.  
But really, there's no need to panic- as a rising first grader your daughter actually sounds quite typical.  There's a very wide range of normal at this age and it's hard not to feel like your kid is a failure because they aren't reading Harry Potter yet. But she'll get there![/quote]

Unless her teacher has said something different, listen to this one. At this point, I'd be most worried about pushing her too much and turning her off reading.

My son is finishing first grade and is reading slightly above grade level after starting at near nothing at the beginning of the year, which seems to be quite typical. But he loved listening to books so was appropriately motivated.[/quote]

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