REASONS FOR LACK COMPREHENSION

REASONS FOR LACK COMPREHENSION

1. Disinterest and boredom

   • Some bright children find the story or material they’re reading so simple that they’re bored. Others are disinterested in what they’re reading because it doesn’t relate to anything they care or know about.

2. Decoding individual words

   • If the assigned material includes too many words a child doesn’t know, they’ll focus on decoding rather than understanding.

3. Difficult text

   • A story may be appropriate for the grade level of the child but too hard for an individual children.

4. Oral language deficit

   • Children with limited vocabulary and oral reading fluency will have difficulties understanding written text.

5. Working memory deficit

   • Occurs with kids who can’t remember what they’ve read long enough to talk about it or explain the story immediately after reading.

6. Visual processing disorder

   • Affects students’ reading comprehension if they skip words or lines. They may also be unable to judge depth and distance and reverse letters and numbers.

7. Poor memory skills

   • They’ve discovered from brain scans that kids with dyslexia have abnormalities in a different part of the brain than kids who have poor reading comprehension.

8. Limited vocabulary

   • If children don’t know the meaning of the words they’re reading, they’ll miss the meaning of the story or chapter.

9. ADHD

   • When they can’t focus, they won’t understand what they read.