The preschool years |
Trouble learning common nursery rhymes, such as "Jack and Jill" and "Humpty Dumpty" |
A lack of appreciation of rhymes |
Mispronounced words; persistent baby talk |
Difficulty in learning (and remembering) names of letters |
Failure to know the letters in his own name |
Kindergarten and first grade |
Failure to understand that words come apart; for example, that batboy can be pulled apart into bat and boy, and, later on, that the word bat can be broken down still further and sounded out as: "b" "aaa" "t" |
Inability to learn to associate letters with sounds, such as being unable to connect the letter b with the "b" sound |
Reading errors that show no connection to the sounds of the letters; for example, the word big is read as goat |
The inability to read common one-syllable words or to sound out even the simplest of words such as mat, cat, hop, nap |
Complaints about how hard reading is, or running and hiding when it is time to read |
A history of reading problems in parents or siblings |
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