Gifted and Average Students with Good Reading Skills
Gifted and Average Students with Good Reading Skills
- Spend longer to complete homework
- Physical complaints of headaches, strain, or tiredness when reading or at school
- Avoids reading or reading for pleasure
- Does poorly on timed tests or standardized tests
- Unable to keep up with reading assignments
- Reads beginning and summaries rather than the entire chapter
- Listens in class rather than doing assigned reading
- Finds it easier to learn from discussion than reading
- Works hard to get grades but feels that s/he is brighter than grades indicate
- Considered lazy or unmotivated (told they could do better if tried harder)
- 12-14% can be helped by the Irlen Method