When my daughter was in first grade they had to know how to read a little bit, but mainly know their sight words. You can buy a pack of flash cards at wal-mart and practice them at home. I found them in the same isle as the leap pad stuff but at the end of the isle in a little red box that says beggining sight words. I kept almost all of the stuff they had to do in kindergarten and one of those things was a list of sight words that they had to know, but I only have the list till February of the school year. but they are: "I, am, like, can, me, a, see, too, to, my, you, said, for, the, we, are, he, at (and at words like cat, rat, bat, sat etc.) go, so, day, all, out, up, it, and, on, in, look, like, is, do, what, where, but, got, they, had, was, of, went, then, were, she, with, her, that, have, has, when, there, as, his, one, pencil, teacher, book, and the names of the colors and numbers up to ten. I think that if your daughter can read and write these words she should be ok. I also kept some of the story books made of paper that they had to read during the year. I can scan them and email them to you or I can fax them to you if you'd like so you can have an idea of what they are reading by the time they go to first grade. Just send me a message with your info and I'll send it as soon as I can. Good luck and I wouldn't worry, it sounds like she'll be ok as long as she reads a little.