7 year old can't follow directions on paper

[Anonymous]

He can read. He can do all the work - math and literacy - on the iPad at school. I suspect this is because the iPad presents things question by question, and require he hits an arrow or push a button, so he can't miss things. I've been having him do work on paper at home because I believe at least a little math should be done on paper. On the first page he skipped an entire row of question. Another day, he skipped reading "odd" and "even" and just put it an answer (but for the wrong question. It was asking about an odd number and he put an even number).

Basically I can't get him to read the directions, follow the directions, and follow the paper... He does all of this electronically at school just fine. Is anyone else seeing this kind of thing?

[Anonymous]

What grade is he in?

[Anonymous]

Dysgraphia

[Anonymous]

What race?

[Anonymous]

Sounds normal, unfortunately. Kids learn much better with pencil and paper and books/workbooks/worksheets than they do on the ipad/chromebook. Some teachers know this and will use paper, many don't or don't bother.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dysgraphia

His writing is fine though

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds normal, unfortunately. Kids learn much better with pencil and paper and books/workbooks/worksheets than they do on the ipad/chromebook. Some teachers know this and will use paper, many don't or don't bother.

So I should just keep working with him on paper to eventually he will learn to do it? I wonder if I can ask if he can do it on paper at school, but I don’t want to be a PITA and give his teacher more work.

[Anonymous]

make him read the question out loud to you.

[Anonymous]

Try having him use a card to cover everything below the row he's working on, and move down line by line and question by question, to practice tracking the whole contents of a printed sheet in order.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Try having him use a card to cover everything below the row he's working on, and move down line by line and question by question, to practice tracking the whole contents of a printed sheet in order.

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I was going to suggest this - my child's tutor suggested this when she's working on worksheets. Just take a piece of paper and cover up the other questions.

(It's not dysgraphia, it's not ADHD, it's just hard to focus on a lot of words on a worksheet.)

[Anonymous]

I might get him evaluated or talk to the school but get some workbooks to start with and just do 10-15 minutes a day and see if that helps. It could be normal as the new teaching styles are lacking in many areas.

[Anonymous]

Practice at home. It sounds like school has too much iPad and not enough paper.

Maybe get a Kumon math workbook at his level and do one page each day.

[Anonymous]

Don’t rush to get evaluated.

Yes keep working on paper at home.

Do they not do ANYTHING on paper at school? That’s crazy to me. Screens are destroying these poor kids.

[Anonymous]

Mine does thus and got diagnosed with adhd this past spring in 6th grade.
There were other issues but this was one of them. I haven’t noticed a difference with the computer though tbh. But if I ask her a question she can give an answer, if it’s written, especially multiple choice format, she can’t process it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds normal, unfortunately. Kids learn much better with pencil and paper and books/workbooks/worksheets than they do on the ipad/chromebook. Some teachers know this and will use paper, many don't or don't bother.

OP explained that it's exactly the opposite. Kid does better on the iPad