exactly I completely get the not wanting to stop and ask! And I am one of those fast readers too - classmates always wanted to time me - sigh. You might want to get him one of those dictionary pens - it scans the word and defines it super quickly - some are expensive but might be worth it. But I skip words and whole sections to this day, with no loss of comprehension, just detail. I don't know if I consider that a bad habit but I am able to judge when I can do it and when I can't. My issue with the teachers is how they assume he is just scanning the pages - from DS perspective, what is the point of it - you read for knowledge - even if he is going to the end first or whatever - he still needs to comprehend something to know what happened. If you are worried about him skipping you could always ask him, what did you think when this happened, do you think it was key to the end - some minor point early on and then if he did skip you could say something about reading the whole thing not just the ending.
With DS 4.5, he likes to be read things where he knows there will be a lot of words he might not know, like his science stuff. And then he always goes back and teaches it to himself. Our problem is that he will try to match words he doesn't know with words he does -although he doesn't sound out. So if he is doing it in his head, and we can't correct him, he must make some funny meanings! Although his vocabulary is getting so enormous, its happening less and less. Yesterday on the way home from pre-k we chatted about our superheros - and he mumbled something which is what he does when he is trying a new word - so I asked - did you say my invisibility shield or my invulnerability shield - invulnerability - and he used it correctly in his story so it wasn't me feeding it to him!!!
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