9. Year old refusing read, does not know what she read

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My 9 years old just hate reading.
She won’t read, she does not have any favourite book.I bought her books she could like but nothing.
She can read very well and fluently and fast- but it seems that nothing she reads goes to her head.
If I ask what she read, she does not remember anything.
Even in school - every teacher she had in last 4 years, they commented that she won’t answer any questions about passage in a book she just read.
Can she be diyslectic?
We just don’t understand.
I used to be a book worm, I spent my whole childhood in a Library, loved reading, my mum always found me reading unde duvet with torch.
I just don’t know what to do,
Just got a school report and Reading is marked Significantly below age expectations.

Does she watch a lot of screens?

Yes she has tablet but not nonstop on it. But obviously she loves tablet and watching all these you tube videos.
But in regards the reading she always was like that.
As I said she reads excellent and fluent but it looks her brain won’t take any of it in.
She says she hates reading.
All her peers in classroom discussed favourite books, reading Harry Potter etc. She won’t pick up book at all.

You could try graphic novels or comics to lure her back to reading? A weekly comic like The Phoenix might encourage her to remember what was going on in the stories from week to week?

Screens impact reading far beyond the ability to read fluently. They just kill the interest in reading. On a tablet, everything is fast pacing, extremely entertaining, start a video and leave before the end, do a high adrenaline game and so on. It is very hard for a book, at least a real book, and not a fabrication aimed at teens , to have all those elements
There are so many books and publications on the detrimental impact of screens on capacity to stay focused.
Remove the tablet for a month,. You can't compete with a tablet. It will take time, but borrow physical books (not ebooks) and let her see you reading .

Also, there may be a disparity between her reading ability (decoding words) and her receptive language. My dd 9 can read absolutely anything fluently, but often doesn’t grasp/understand what she has read. As a result, she prefers books aimed at younger children or for me to read aloud to her and stop to chat about what is going on now and again.

Try audiobooks. There's free ones at stories.audible.com

If she really gets into a book in a series but the next one isn't available as an audiobook that may encourage her to want to read to find out what happens next.

Thanks all. I Just bought her some books, she agreed to read it..

One step at a time!