This is Cierra!

She has a great imagination and loves to use her mind to take her to all kinds of places. One of her favorite places to pretend to go to is outer space!

She was also about to start kindergarten, and she could not wait to start! This would be her time to have fun and play pretend with all of her new friends.

However, her first day was very confusing. Her teacher was having her learn these weird symbols and making very strange sounds with them! and she didn't even have time to play pretend with her friends.

"aaaaaah"

"Bbbbuh"

"cccccccuh"

A B C

Though Cierra's teacher tried her hardest by reading books to the class and teaching the class how to sound out words, Cierra was still very confused and getting more frustrated by the minute!

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What is going on??

One of the reasons she was so far behind everyone was mainly because she was one of the youngest in the class. Her friends that were born in Septemeber had a whole year for their brains to grow. Whereas Cierra was born in June and her brain only had 3 months to grow. So overall, her brain just wasn't quite ready to take on reading.

However, all was not lost for Cierra! Her mom continued to reinforce her sight words at home after dinner and read her books every night before she went to bed.

Cierra also had a friend that came during nap time to take her out of class and play games that helped her with her reading.