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I haven't read all the posts on this--limited time--but I have two questions: has eyesight been completely checked? We discovered my daughter had a wandering eye that made certain kinds of reading difficult--easy to fix with vision therapy. Why were we looking? Well, she'd had a whole battery of educational tests and everything was way out there except for one area where she was "only average." No one was worried because average is fine--but I was curious about why and her eye dr. added extra tests--and there it was. (This was in 4th grade, BTW.)
The other question also relates to my D's experience (and my sister's). Halfway through first grade--right about Feb--they wanted to hold her back because she couldn't read at all. Zero. A month later she read at 3rd grade level. Why the difference? Turned out she is a sight-reader, reads the whole word at a gulp, and only sounded out a word if she couldn't read it by sight-reading. It took until March of first grade for her to have a good enough sight reading vocabulary to actually read. (My sister read the same way, and her daughter, too.)
Don't panic yet. Do lots and lots of reading with your daughter. Makes sure she thinks reading is really really important. Set the example by not watching TV. Try watching kids' foreign movies, which have subtitles (Asterix is fun) and cartoons. Give her the collected books of Peanuts cartoons--fun to read and easy too. (Worked for my sister and both her D and mine.)
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