Moving from ‘c..a..t’ to ‘cat’
Does your child sound out words fairly accurately only to then struggle to ‘blend’ the sounds together in order to read the word accurately? Examples of this might sound like “t..e..n…….top” or “s…i…t…..tea”.
My child struggles to read longer words
Many children find it difficult to read words of more than one syllable length. They can often sound out or decode short, simple words but really find those longer words tricky.