Dyslexia warning signes

What to look for as early warning signs of a reading difficulty
The earliest signs that indicate possible reading difficulty in a child can be observed during preschool and kindergarten years. Be aware of signs that indicate there may be a problem with learning to read:
• Difficulty manipulating sounds in words
• Struggles with rhyming, word games, or recognizing words that start with the same sound.
• Has not learned the alphabet, despite making efforts, by kindergarten.
• Is not speaking at the level of his peers.
• Trouble making associations between sounds and letters.
• Problems in detecting differences in speech sounds and performing tasks that require this skill, such as:
• Pronouncing new words and remembering them
• Breaking words apart into sounds
• Blending sounds together to make words
• Remembering the names and sounds of the letters

During First Grade
A child with weak phonological skills often prefers to guess at unknown words while reading because he is not very good at figuring out the sounds or blending them together. Your first grader resists when you suggest that he read aloud to you.
By the middle of first grade your child should be able to read at least 100 common words, such as the, and, and is, and know the letter-sound associations well enough to read words in simple books. Watch for these warning signs as you listen to your child read aloud:
• Doesn’t know the sounds associated with all of the letters
• Skips words in a sentence and doesn’t stop to self-correct
• Can’t remember words; sounds out the same word every time it occurs on the page
• Frequently guesses at unknown words rather than sounding them out

You can also look at your child’s writing for clues about reading difficulty.
By the end of kindergarten a child should be writing words that contain most of the consonant sounds in a word, even though the vowels will often be missing or inaccurate until later.
But always keep in mind, if your child is struggling it does not necessarily mean there is a problem. Learning to read is a complex process. For most children, it takes time and effort; and for anyone for whom it does not come easy, plenty of direct, systematic instruction. But everyone can read, if taught according to their needs.