Alphabet

Kindergarten is progressing slowly with their abc idenitification. They are now on there 4th set of letters.  We are still working on colors, shapes, and numbers; but the focus is on the alphabet.  There is such a great mandate for learning the alphabet as the foundation for learning tricky words and being able to read starting in January with basic level A readers, that it is a pertinent skill for them to acquire.  There is one student that is particularly lower than the other 2 and can identify very few of the letters despite constant repetition.  This is going to become a hinderance very fast, if it is not already.  I am concerned that her lack of any language and previous educational experience will slow her learning down.  I have worked with 2 of her older siblings and they both still struggle on basic skills.  I was hoping that they would use their English skills to prepare her a little better for school, but even though she can speak in broken English conversational sentences and be understood - she appears to be retaining very little of the information we work on in ESL or that is worked on in class.