my dd is nearly 9 and despite having a reading age (when tested) much older than her actual age, she is not a very fluent reader. she hates reading allowed and tends to omit and substitute words on the page.
well yesterday she had a vision test. i dont just mean seeing if she can read letters from a certain distance- which she can. i mean a proper in depth vision test.
... it turns out that she has a tracking probelm, making it really hard to follow a line of text on the page.
it is very common for children to have undetected vision problems, even though their eye sight is generally good.
so glad that this has been identified relatively early as the impact of not seeing yourself as a good reader is pretty huge .
she is not getting reading glasses. suddenly, with the correct lens, her reading speed / accuracy doubled.
hope this is useful / interesting for somebody
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If you know that your child can READ WORDS WELL BUT they LOSE THEIR PLACE when reading and are not as FLUENT as they should be, then read this.. .
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