DS7 (grade 2) has started skipping sentences, or portions thereof, when reading aloud. I believed he was reading those bits in his head, since he reads faster to himself than he does aloud. Then I saw him apparently finishing a book he was 1/3 through reading aloud to me. I asked if he'd enjoyed it and he said he hadn't been reading it, 'just looking at it'. Upon further questioning he said he 'read parts of some pages' and 'likes skipping around and only reading bits' in books, instead of reading from start to finish.
This may be developmentally appropriate (I'm here because I know I'll get excellent answers faster than I can Google!), but he's a very fluent reader and has appeared to be reading on his own quite frequently. Now I'm wondering if that's what he's actually been doing and if my dysgraphia concerns should be expanding to include other possibilities. His PS is low (42)compared to everything else (GAI is 99).
This book was one he chose, incidentally, not something he had to read for school. The school book reports he has to write for homework led him to pretend not have read books he had read in order to avoid writing about them. That seemed to resolve when I started scribing the reports, but maybe this is an artefact.
His vision seems fine (early tracking weakness is the only thing the optometrist has ever found) and he doesn't complain about any physical difficulty in reading.
Any thoughts or advice?
