PS. Everything else you said regarding her memory and processing speed trying to compensate for fundamental decoding skills is exactly on point and why we pursued an eval, aeh. She tried so hard to figure things out based on context and pictures on the page, and she'd just throw out any number of words that might "fit" the sentence instead of actually reading the words in front of her (even when they were simple 3-4 letter words). It was just such bizarre behavior for me to witness after doing nothing but phonics with her every day for 2 years! lol. Silly child. I'm only glad, at this point, that we had all that phonics for that time. I can't even begin to imagine how bad her reading struggles would currently be if we had done anything with less phonics in it... The idea actually makes me shudder a bit...
