Is she avoiding long books and gravitating toward picture books because she is using the pictures to understand the meaning of the story?
Or.. 3) Perhaps neither. Maybe she is just interested in the subject matter of the “younger” books and no difficulties exist. Monitor her progress closely to determine what is going on. It could be nothing but it could be something. Though I have worked with Kindergarteners to Senior Citizens, the majority of reading difficulties that I have seen are in the third and fourth grade. This is where the student makes the big jump to independent reading and reading instruction tapers off. If a student is having even a small difficulty, it will show up then. Here are a few things I have tried with similar students in the past: 1) I compromise between picture books and chapter books. When we sit down to read together, we read 5 pages of the picture book and 5 pages of the chapter book. 2) Here is something else I tried with a student who was convinced he couldn’t read with out pictures. I took out a picture book he had never seen before and I paper clipped a piece of paper over all the picture
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