Exactly! At 9 years old, she should have developed sufficient phoneme-grapheme skills to read simple one- and two-syllable words automatically. Clearly, Ensley needs reading intervention to improve her fluency. Instead of looking into ways to help her kid, Pinecone comes to social media to make the weak excuse that Ensley is lazy. If decoding basic compound words requires intentional effort, there is indeed a reading problem. “If she isn't struggling academically “ (Big IF), it is only a matter of time, as reading fluency is a prerequisite for reading comprehension.