My DD (8) loves audio and could listen all day long. Her reading is OK but slow, would take her at least 5 times longer to read a page than me, but no obvious issues with decoding or comprehension. She’s a free reader at school and her teacher thinks her reading is fine. I think speed of reading is the main issue that holds back her enjoying reading as much. Between something also challenging and reading she’d chose reading (say, instead of maths homework) but she won’t pick up a book unless I ask her too, whereas audio books are a special treat to her. Is it a modern child thing, are there others in the same boat? Do you allow as much audio as they like (to expand literary vocabulary), or do you insist on books (so they see how the words are spelled and punctuation)? I have previously asked about the speed of reading and we tried every or most tricks (reading together, reading a sentence each, writing down every unknown word, comprehension questions, I read with her or sit by her as she reads every night etc) and I think it’s slowly got better but not to the level where she’s a fast reader. Are there people who are just slow readers and can’t be improved? I don’t think she’s dyslexic as although her spelling is not the best it’s not very bad, observing her peers’ writing (with online school I now see a lot of it, posted up) it seems pretty similar. Her English score is pretty high, in top 8% nationally on average for the last 3 years. She also doesn’t seem to struggle with reading she’s just very s-l-o-w. Please let me know if anyone’s child is similar. A lot of her friends go through books like sweets (as did I when I was that age, I would skip school to read) and it’s so hard to understand why she can’t read fluently with no obvious issues. She’s left-handed, if that makes any difference.