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English class is extremely hard for my son. He has a lot of literature to read and then reflect and answer questions about it. If the answers are in the text, great, but if it's anything he has to interpret, analyze or "read between the lines" forget it. He simply can't do it. He is a visual thinker and I've tried asking him to picture what he reads and then answer the questions that way but it only works part of the time. I'm wondering if anyone has a child or knows of one that excels in high… read more
Try "hyperlexia" as a search term and the Yahoo group called Hyperlex. Hyperlexia has a variable definition but often it's used to mean reading comprehension that lags decoding. A book on it is "Drawing a Blank" by Emily Iland and another applicable book might be "left-brained child in a right brained world" by Katharine Beals. Beals book is mostly a criticism of the English class rather than actionable suggestions though. The Hyperlex list archives have a lot of discussion of different reading comprehension programs and stuff like that.
HD, that's what I'm doing now too :)
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