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[quote=Anonymous]Former 7th grade teacher and current tutor; I see this all the time. 7th grade is when the reading for all classes gets a lot harder--longer passages, smaller text, more description, harder vocab, more inferences. Kids can struggle with this for any number of reasons, including needing to strengthen their executive function to pay attention, weak vocab, or weak background knowledge. These could be signs of a learning disability/ADHD but are also just as likely signs that they could benefit from the maturity of time or from outside support, which could come from you or from a tutor.

Would your kid be open to your doing some HW with them 1-2 nights a week, just to see how they think? You could be able to inject a few strategies that would really help, or be able to give a brief summary of the reading that would unlock their understanding for the rest of the book. You could use that to determine whether they need ongoing support or whether a little spot-check here and there is good. [/quote]

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