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Reading Comprehension: Trouble Signs  
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Tags: reading, comprehension, signs, education

This list is from Overcoming Dyslexia, by Sally Shaywitz, MD. A noted researcher in neuroscience and a pediatrician, Dr Shaywitz is professor of pediatrics and codirector of the Yale Center for the Study of Learning and Attention. She is also a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. She hopes her book will be a “trusted source you can turn to for information, for advice, for guidance and for explanation.”

	Doesn’t seem to get much from his reading
	Has trouble answering “What was it about?”
	Doesn’t enjoy reading
	Spends the same amount of time on easy passages as on difficult ones
	Doesn’t finish what he begins to read
	Doesn’t seem to be able to relate his reading to things he knows
	Has trouble drawing inferences from his reading; is very literal
	Can’t come up with “main ideas” or summarize
	Can’t distinguish important ideas from lesser ones
	Has trouble making predictions about the reading
	Rarely checks back to earlier pages to orient himself
	Says reading is “boring”, or “I’m tired”
	Avoids reading

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Source: Shaywitz MD, Sally, Overcoming Dyslexia, AA Knopf 2003

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