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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most kids learn to decode, but there are a few that don't.  I've seen kids test using nonsense words that they are supposed to sound out; a child who decodes can do them easily, but a child who reads can't.[/quote]

As I have read, normal readers are more successful at the nonsense word test than dyslexic readers.  Isn't it also true for dyslexics that comprehension is always stronger than decoding?[/quote]

In that context, normal readers are children who decode.  Kids who started reading on their own between 2-4 don't decode, they weren't taught to do that.  Comprehension varies.  Any child who is just learning to read will have better comprehension from something that is read to them versus something they read; dyslexic children usually have a more prolonged issue linking comprehension and decoding, but it's very hard to increase comprehension when the child is doing the reading, because the brain is concentrating so much on parsing the words.

I'm a tutor.  I've volunteered in an elementary school for years, and every year I've helped administer the nonsense word tests.  I remember doing the nonsense word test in school, and I hated it.  In third grade, my reading rate was 80+ words per minute, reading comprehension was 7-9th grade depending on type of text, but I bombed that test, just as I had every year since kindergarten.  It's used to test whether kids can decode words that they've never seen, not to test reading ability, yet teachers believe that it's good indicator of whether the child is really trying to read.[/quote]

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