RE LA ? for 8 yo -- AliR response question

[super grover]

Hey, I am tagging on to an early post -- mostly because I am banging my head against a wall repeatedly lately over this. You mention visual clues -- like what? From the picture book? What kind of books? I am out of the picture book league.

My DS8 has no CLUE about the W questions, cannot (wont?) follow written direction correctly, and cannot remember what happened in one small paragraph. Some days it seems like everything disapears in his * head!

I like the picture book idea. My issue (I know, what an issue!) is that my DS read about 3 yo -- at the same time he spoke his first sentences. Hyperlexia. Its hard for me to seperate his "reading" at grade level and his understanding of his reading. Its probably the same.

[AliR]

How we do it:

There are small picture cards with 'who', 'where', 'when', 'what happened'. These have both the actual words, and also a small picture, for example the where card has a signpost with a question mark.

We will read (can be dd doing the reading, me or shared) a sentence or two from a simple book. At the moment we are tying this in with her readers so are using Sonlight I Can Read It books. Then I ask a question, showing the appropriate picture card, based on what has just been read.

This seems to help by focusing attention on a particular aspect but it is still not easy and sometimes I wonder whether we are talking about the same book! Sometimes I even ask the question before we start reading so that she has an idea of what to look out for.

I know that we have a big problem due to her delay in receptive speech, but the ability to pull information from what you have read seems to be a tough area for a lot of other children at this age also.

Hope that helps