Thankyou so much for this - it fits with her personality, I guess I'm still at the stage where I'm struggling to see how it can be possible to learn something so complex without any help! I think I'll keep you as my hope and try the other suggestions as a backup
Reading a language you can already understand is less complex to learn than understanding a language in the first place, if you think about it, and we assume children will learn that without being explicitly taught! I think DS learned to read by first memorising stories and then code-cracking against the written text.
