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[quote=Anonymous]I'm wondering about my first grade DS.  He is supposedly on grade level, according to his teachers, who have raised no concerns, but school this year has been disrupted so I'm just not sure they're giving particular attention to a kid who's not significantly behind.  This is a private (non DMV area) that has been hybrid most of this year, but in-person is only 2 days a week.

My concerns are that he reads but skips, inserts or changes the words he's reading so it's something like what's on the page but not exactly.  I suspect there's a quite a bit of guessing and reliance on pictures and context going on, as well as memory.  At home he doesn't want to read new books, just books he's already read, and he has a scary-accurate memory for anything (he could easily recite sentences from a book he's read before from memory).  His resistance to reading is also concerning -- it's a fight everytime to get him to read anything.  His teachers assign only one reading assignment a day, which takes him like 5 minutes and is easy, but he never wants to read anything else.  He is happy for me to read to him for an hour, but resists reading to me (not even every other page or parts) and never reads silently to himself.

On the other hand, he does well in the phonics study they do in school and unprompted can read signs or instructions that are new and do not have picture clues.  He's a bit of an anxious kid who doesn't like trying new things that he can't get right immediately, so maybe that is part of the problem?

I don't know, I have a niggling concern in my mind that something is not quite right, but maybe I'm off-base, and am just arrogant in thinking that he should be ahead of where he is because his parents are smart and his older sister read above grade level on her own with seemingly little effort?  [/quote]

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