With Liebling, the "tricky words" he had to learn I put into a story. Then Liebs read it to me. About his interests.

So if your child liked Dr Who, you could call your story "Where is Dr Who?"

Each page could be a picture of the Doctor poking his head out of a known place, followed by text. Such as:

He said "I am in the cup"
He said "I am in the cage"
He said "I am in the grass"

And so on and on and on. The changing word is the one that you have a picture for, so your child isn't "reading" that word, and you ask "where's the doctor?" every page. We sometimes do this as powerpoint shows, with text as the title then a picture beneath.

Once you've done that, then have flashcards or something to jumble up words that she's confident with - have a game to see who gets the most right. (And let her win the first one, at least.)