I notice they never sit with a group of little ones and read a story. No time I suppose, but something like Each PeachPear Plumor bear hunt where the older ones can join in, as mine did very quickly! Bonnie or Heidie had a dress with The Very Hungry Catterpillar on it and Sue didn’t seem to recognise the dress as being from the book at all, she said something like your dress has a caterpillar on it, maybe if she found that book!
This is easy enough to do and as I have outed myself I will say.
I have a 7, 4, 3 and 1 year old and they love doing story time, we end up reading 3 or 4 books because they never agree on 1, but then I often have the slightly older ones join in. We also love thats not my books, cant resist a new one when they come out!
You can buy some really cute cheap books in the works, we love a good seasonal book too for christmas or halloween.
A couple of mine are dyslexic and even though they struggle with actual words on the page they have enjoyed audio books when a bit older which as a teacher told me is just as good if they struggle.
I dont think Sue has any kind of formal learning difficulty at all, its a lack of education. Her life stopped at 13 and she never needed to do any more because her pathway was mapped out at that point.