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@T.H.O.U.: I was thinking about this thread and it made me wonder how old your daughter is, so I checked the K 2016 thread, and she's about a year younger than my child. My son really took off with reading (aloud, still phonetically sounding out words he's never read before) in the past few months. A year ago was sort of another story. I don’t see the point in pushing too much at 5. I’d do the early BOB books or something similar and practice letter sounds and blending when possible, but don’t double-down on drilling/lots of repetition at this point. I think that even if you can get in just 5 min/day, you’ll be advancing the ball considerably. Any other time you have, read aloud from harder books to increase her vocabulary so that when things do start to fall into place, she has a big reserve of words she’s already heard to attach to the printed words and the sounds they make.
I think it’s important to remember that 5 or 6 is not "late" for beginning reading, except the school's arbitrary timetable and preschools that do reading instruction can make it seem that way. So I wouldn't worry or consider the possibility of a processing issue when she's working on long vowel sounds/silent e and not quite at digraphs (because those are one page/chapter apart in every phonetic reading text I've looked at!). Maybe next month it will all start clicking. Or the month after that, or next year. I would only consider the possibility of a processing problem is if there are other reasons you have concerns.
Also, FWIW, I wouldn't bother with games or apps, but I am not a fan of screens as educational tools for young children. I really think it's best to read texts on a printed page, preferably in book form, when a child is learning to read.
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@Mrs Green Grass: @brownie: Thank you. I dont want to use working as an excuse to not give my kid what they need, but its so hard to "balance" it all. Free time, Family time, Homework time, and then 1:1 reading practice.
@looch: Thanks. The teacher has said over and over that she is not behind. She made straight A on her fall report card. But then they said she was a level behind on this one computer assessment but it also was tied to her lack of focus and she would spend their limited time in the computer lab getting logged out or not focusing. I may try to spend some time better understanding the resources the school does offer. I know they have a lot, especially for students that need assistance but I worry that since she's maybe just middle of the road, she's getting overlooked. I just want to keep up with everything so that she doesn't fall behind. Maybe my concerns about her being young Kindergartener?
@Baby Boy Mom: Yes to life skills! We need to get her in the kitchen more, get her to start doing more chores like laundry, etc. So many other things that need to happen outside of school.
@honeybear: Thanks! The PreK program last year did a great job trying to get them going on sight words and she just wasn't super interested. So we let it slide until now in Kindergarten. She's picking it up (she will write us notes and "sound out" the words to try to spell them). But its a good reminder that even by age 6, thats not late for reading.
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My goal today is to get some Reading Comprehension or simple Reading Passages worksheets that I can print and have at home.
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@T.H.O.U.: I think you can't look at it by age, you have to look at it by grade unless the school has resources to address different levels in each grade. I mean, think about it, my son is 6, your daughter is 5.5. They're both in the same grade. I don't think when you're in public school, you have the leisure of just kind of letting them go at their own pace because the years get more and more intense and this is when kids fall behind. Being one level behind in kindergarten doesn't seem like a big deal, but if at the end of the year, a child is two levels behind, what does that mean for the beginning of first grade?
I think you're doing the right thing by contacting the school. Maybe she can have another assessment in a different environment. Then you know the true baseline, that's where I would begin.
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