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Many times, she will tell me about a topic they are discussing as a class (Eleanor Roosevelt, human body, etc), and I can tell that she is repeating word for word the way it was told to her.

If and when I help DD study for a science test, I find that she can recite much of the chapter they're in word for word. Admittedly, the book is easy, but I know she hasn't consciously tried to do this. It's a bit spooky. I've told her she could do beautifully in something like medicine because her memory for material that she reads (especially of interest--she loves science) is out of this world. When she was in a lengthy play at age 7, she memorized the other actors' lines unintentionally.