You should begin to have concerns and seek guidance from a teacher or other educational professional if your child shows signs they need extra help with reading.
Signs that your child may be having problems with reading include:
- trouble learning colour names in junior kindergarten
- trouble learning letter names in senior kindergarten
- trouble hearing rhymes or isolating sounds in words
- trouble blending sounds together
- difficulty recognizing a word after having seen it many times in many different contexts
- after sounding out a word, giving an unrelated word
- frequent letter or number reversals by the end of Grade One, especially if there has been more than three months of practice
- consistent omission or transposition of letters in words, for example, "gril" instead of "girl"
- choppy, slow reading
- a limited sight vocabulary
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