Thank you all. Cammom... that's exactly what I feel like I see in her right now. She is so frustrated that she isn't reading. She knows the letters, the sounds, and a bunch of sight words. She could take off like he did three months from now (when he did), but who is to say? I just feel badly because she wants to read and is conflicted because she has some books memorized and will say sadly, "But I'm not REALLY reading the words."
Not sure whether to wait or help her a bit.
To me this is a red flag that if you don't teach her now, she will conclude that there's something wrong with her/learning new things just isn't possible/whatever she does isn't the real deal. I took a very hands-off approach with my second one and decided I didn't mind if she didn't read until school. By then every time she thought about text she had such a negative idea of her abilities that she didn't work on it enough to learn for a year and a half. Neither of my kids picked up reading by osmosis and it was critical to have the attitude that it's normal to work on this a bit and it's normal for it to be a little hard. Once I started insisting on daily reading time and showed her the progress that she made, she also made huge leaps and bounds in every other area - physical, social, and academic. I'm still reeling from the 'growth spurt' she made over the last month.
So while I have no useful suggestions of curriculum, I think it's damaging to not teach a child who is asking to learn and probably is able to.
