- Mispronouncing words

- Struggling to name familiar objects and using general words like thing and stuff instead

- Having a hard time learning nursery rhymes or song lyrics that rhyme

- Telling stories that are hard to follow or having trouble talking about an event in a logical order

-Having difficulty remembering and following directions with multiple steps

- Having trouble learning letter names and remembering the sounds they make

- Often confusing letters that look similar (like b, d, p, and q) or sound similar (like f and v)

- Struggling to read aloud

- Having trouble separating the individual sounds in words and blending sounds to make a word

- Having trouble remembering how words are spelled and applying spelling rules in writing

- Confusing or skipping small words like 'for' and 'of' when reading

- Having trouble sounding out new words

- Having trouble quickly recognizing common words (sight words)

- Struggling to explain what happened in a story or answer questions about key details

- Frequently making the same kinds of mistakes, like reversing letters

- Having poor spelling, like spelling the same words correctly and incorrectly in the same exercise

- Reading slowly or leaving out small words and parts of longer words when reading aloud

- Struggling to remember common abbreviations, including ones on social media

- Often searching for words or using substitutes like 'gate' instead of 'fence'

- Often not 'getting' the joke or having trouble understanding idioms and puns

- Taking a very long time to complete reading assignments

- Having an easier time answering questions about a page of text if it's read aloud