Reading ?

Is her comprehension still there?  In other words can she narrate well from what she has read.  Sometimes when a child, or even adult, is a very good and fast reader, their mouth doesn’t always say what the brain is understanding.  I know I personally have to make a conscious decision to slow down and read carefully in order to read aloud, and even then my kids are always correcting me because I mis-speak.  I do all the adding/changing/missing words that you mentioned.  I am a very fast reader (silently), so it takes effort to read aloud clearly.

If her narrations are good, then practice oral reading skills.  I’ve specifically taught my readers (ages 7 and 5) that reading to someone has to be different than reading silently.  I have them treat it more as an oral presentation or speech than reading.  This means they need to read slowly and clearly.  Teach her to pause at commas and pause longer at periods, and maybe even glance up to make sure your listener is nodding or showing that they understand you.  My son needs reminders to stop speaking when he breathes, otherwise he’ll just breathe in a couple of words and no one hears them.  We practice this at family scripture time.  They need to read clearly enough that my 3yo can understand.  When she reads to you, don’t always read along, so that she knows that she has to read carefully or you won’t understand, because you don’t see the text.  

My dd6 also uses Pathway readers.  One of the things I’ve noticed is that it is really easy to anticipate what they are going to say.  This may be why she is skipping, adding or changing words.  Her brain is only half engaged.  Maybe try having her read something else to see if she does the same thing.  The Christian Liberty Nature Reader might be a good book to try.

One of my DS6’s had similar problems with reading aloud, even though they’ve been excellent silent readers since 4 1/2. Especially silently reading through breaths and pausing issues. We worked on it a lot, and eventually it seemed like he’d done all he could to consciously improve, and the rest looked to be a wait-and-see thing, so I just let it go. I suddenly realized recently that he now has no more problems like that. He can clearly and quickly read aloud anything he’s asked to. Especially if it’s something he is excited about!

So since her comprehension seems good, I guess my input is that while you shouldn’t ignore it – continue to gently remind her of her goals in reading aloud – there’s probably going to be a lot more improvement over time.

Record her while she is reading and have her follow along with the recording. My ddaughter wouldnt put any word inflection or pauses etc. After hearing herself read she just laughed & laughed. She now “gets” how hard it was to listen to her read. She is much better at it now and pauses properly. Can’t hurt anyway.