I just looked up the content of the comprehension test and found the following explanation: "Comprehension: measures how well a child understands language spoken to him, and his social conventions, and common sense. A sample question would be, What would you do if you found someone injured on the sidewalk?" Okay, now it's making even LESS sense that he would score in the 50th percentile on this test. I was thinking this was more like reading comprehension, and he does have the skim/guess problem with that. I really don't need to do anything about the score, I just need to understand this, and I can't, and it's driving me crazy! Thanks for understanding and listening to me vent.
This is just a guess - if it is a relative weakness - I have read that HG+ kids often cruise through the early years of school simply because they can put together so much from context. A test like this doesn't give contextual clues for pulling information together, so that's one possible reason why he may be soaring high in schoolwork but not performing so highly on this one specific task.
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