I noticed my daughter struggling with reading. Since reading can be a difficult skill for young children, sometimes it makes sense. Except in our case, it didn’t, at all.
Starting at age 3 we enrolled our daughter in an elite private preschool. Their main selling point is that their students leave preschool reading fluently. Their program worked amazingly well for our three older children so we assumed it would be the same.
We had her in the private school program from ages 3-5. By the time she left the school to go to kindergarten, she could identify most letters and sounds, but had a lot of difficulty blending sounds and reading overall. She never hit the final milestone the majority of students achieve in the private school program. I was a little sad, but thought we just needed more time.