Hello. Our son tested highly gifted when he was in kindergarten and then again at 2nd grade. He taught himself to read and write at 2. Now at 8, he is constantly researching things he is obssessed about...and there are many. He is also writing about whatever facinates him, we have learned so much just from reading the "books" he has written. However, reading non-preferred stories is quite a struggle. Whenever his teacher asks him to re-tell stories which he just read beautifully, he can't. His test scores are so poor in reading. His teachers can't figure out what the problem is, nor can we. We think that he either won't focus because he doesn't think it's worth his time or that he focuses so much on reading it nicely but forgets to understand the story. Does anyone have any ideas?
