The child may ‘hit a wall,’ have meltdowns, yell and refuse. Your child may say, “I’m stupid” or “I can’t read” or start to use a baby voice, reverting to a younger age during homework time. Homework may be a challenge because it takes forever and does not feel fun. Reading takes a long time, and the pace is so slow that it is hard to remember the content. These children may really dislike reading. Children who struggle with sight word recall are not encoding and remembering what they see on the page. This challenge is indicative of a problem with sight word recall. Your child may still need to sound out ‘mother’ each time it appears in the text. Maybe you’ve seen the word ‘mother’ appear fifteen times in “Are you my mother?” Sometimes it is even repeated on the same page. The same simple book, read over and over, may take forever each time. If your child is really struggling with reading, he or she may be having difficulty with sight word recall.
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