Thanks for everyone's insights, DD is pretty subversive with her learning too so who knows what is going on there. She oftern practises alone then lets us know, I just haven't seen anything takes this long!
I taught my kids to read by just reading consistently together every tonight for 10-20 minutes. We started with Bob books and then climbed our way up the literacy chain of various easy reader books from the library. I'm curious how that compares to using a computer program.
I imagine reading together would be ideal - and we do read lots of different types of books together - however DD will not co operate at all with reading herself unless it's her idea which is rare. So I get they beginning books from the library all the time and put them in our book box, they get ignored completely. The reading eggs is 100% driven by her - I stay out of it!
