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[quote=Anonymous]We just had the "ah-ha" moment a few hours ago.

DD is in kindergarten a year early since she won't be 5 until May. I started her early because I felt she was ready (she could count to 100, skip count by 2s 5s and 10s and knew all letters upper and lower case and their sounds) and since we'd be homeschooling, it wasn't going to be a big deal if we stated and I realized it was too much for her then put everything up for a year.

I tried everything to make phonics work for her, but she just didn't appear to get it. Even simple consonant-vowel-consonant words would just get a blank stare from her. The only thing we had going for us is her amazing memory. Going by Google, kindergartners should know 20-50 sight words by the end of the year, she's at 95 and going strong, adding roughly 10 new word a week.

I was strongly considering not only having her repeat kindergarten, but doing so in public school as I was feeling like a failure as a teacher. Tonight she picked a book from our library trip today (she had never seen or had the book read to her before), and she read the whole thing. It did have a lot of sight words, and a lot of repetition, but also had words she had to sound out as she hasn't learned them yet.[/quote]

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