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Slow reading speed

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LowLifeOpinions · 13/03/2019 21:41

My dd is 12. She's very bright, top of her class for maths and no academic trouble. Her handwriting is fine, she is articulate and organised etc, but she reads really quite slowly. She really noticed the other day that she and her friend were reading the same book and her friend read two or three times as much in the same time. We really have to encourage her to read when given her personality you would put her down as a bookworm.

Does anyone have experience of this? Anything that will help?

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LowLifeOpinions · 13/03/2019 22:16

She has said she likes to really figure out what she's reading, but still.

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LowLifeOpinions · 13/03/2019 22:14

Eye test end of August was fine.

Dd says she has really noticed that she stumbles over her words when she reads aloud. I haven't particularly noticed that but haven't been paying attention to that.

My dd said she usually uses a ruler to keep herself on the right line. Again, I hadn't noticed this, maybe she doesn't do it all the time.

I don't know about her friend's reading, sorry.

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TeenTimesTwo · 13/03/2019 22:04

No experience, a few thoughts.

  1. Was the friend skipping whereas your DD reading carefully?
  2. Have you done an eye test recently?
  3. What's her reading aloud like?