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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm following this thread with great interest because I have a daughter who turned 7 in June, rising to 2nd, and is slow to read. She also was slow to pick up phonics. She recently got a 20/40 R/L and 20/30 bilateral vision so we are following up there. Where would we go for further evaluation and testing for possible dyslexia? We were virtual until March (a full year) and she didn't focus well in virtual despite our best effort to support her. I felt she easily got distracted and was shy to ask questions, often saying the teacher didn't see her, hear her, etc. We will keep reading a little each day. It's not her favorite activity. We are working on sight word reviews and I'm just trying to be patient and keep it positive. I would love testing referrals. In NW DC will commute anywhere.[/quote]

Don't work on sight words.  They will come as she reads.  Work on phonics.  Read phonetical readers like Bob books or Dear Dragon until she can sound out words.  How to Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is a great book, but there are other phonetic programs that work too.[/quote]

It depends on the child.  Some learn better with sight words, some better with phonics.  Try BOTH ways.  Mine was a sight reader.  [/quote]
Teaching reading by sight words has been proven ineffective as kids lose the ability to keep up by memorizing words around grade 3.  They peak and fizzle.   It's important to teach phonics.[/quote]

Teachers kept telling us DC was a sight reader in 1st and 2nd grade. Turns out she was dyslexic and memorizing words, but still had a lot of trouble decoding them. Sight readers are inefficient readers, and without specialized intervention they will suffer in higher grades when kids move from learning to read to reading to learn.[/quote]

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