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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks PP with the personal anecdote. I sincerely appreciate that and I hope mine will find a similar path. Right now though, she is struggling so hard to decode and comprehend so many words in these massive passages they have to read….she does take notes but I think she’s trying to memorize them and that’s going to be impossible for a kid like her. Not helping is that the class is literally the last period of her day. [/quote]

I’m sorry she’s struggling so much.  My child was similar and she’s now in college, and much happier.

The workload of the reading passages is a huge time and energy suck for these students.  And the text to speech for random articles often don’t have great prosody, so that makes it hard to comprehend.  And in many cases the students have to figure out audio access themselves as teachers haven’t made lesson plans accessible.

I spent a lot of time reading to my freshman.  I could add the appropriate emphasis to make it more easily understood.  If there were questions that had to be answered, we would look at those first and pause the reading so she could respond as soon as she heard info.

We tried to make it fun with stuff like bubble tea or snacks.  As time went on I had her “book time” with me to do this to encourage her to plan.

But honestly she spent a lot of time stuck in panic thinking about how she would never get her homework done- and that was not helpful.  So I set up a “planning check in” each day to come up with a plan for that night.  I framed it as planning my time in case she needed help, but it also helped her plan her own work/ time.

And it may be controversial, but it might be worth looking into some of the AI tools that can help summarize longer passages or simplify them.  The use would need to depend on the purpose of the reading.  But if decoding is still an issue, that can maintain access.  Some course materials have alternate versions with different reading levels.  You may need to ask the teacher and share how long the reading is taking.[/quote]

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