This is our daughter's kindergarten year. This is actually our second year of it. Her birthday is late, she obviously wasn't ready, so we decided to wait.
My dilemma: reading instruction has been so very difficult for us. I taught school, even worked on multisensory reading instruction for my graduate degree. I should know how to do this!!! But I feel I failed her. We worked on phonemic awareness activities early on, she learned letter sounds from Leap Frog, then I tried sitting her down for direct instruction. Progress stopped. During this period, I tried 100 Lessons, OPGTR, AAS, Starfall, ETC, ETC online, Orton-Gillingham instruction, etc. She hated all of it. Then we tried Reading Eggs - success! She's reading several words, books, and asking for more!
What is her learning style? Is it visual? What am I missing? What other programs are out there that I can utilize for her style/benefit? We did MUS Primer last year and she loved it. I wanted to try RS (thinking she was kinesthetic) but it hasn't kept her attention like MUS. We were going to start BFSU for science but I'm second guessing everything now. (We tried MFW K and it was not for her, either. She hated the craft projects.)
Any advice?