I had received my child’s level test in reading. I called the school and asked where her strengths were on the test since it just showed progressing. They told me that she was strongest in inferential comprehension, then came reading strategies, and the weakest area was literal comprehension. They were suprised that inferential would be stronger than literal. Any ideas on what this means? And what should I have them include on her IEP to help her?
reading comprehension
My older son had the same issue. He ‘got’ higher level thinking through reading but the literal meanings of things was something he didn’t retain or understand well. Ultimately he proved to be fairly high IQ with a fairly serious language based learning disability which did explain his ability and lack of it when reading.
perhaps her active imagination and abilty to read between the lines for social information he helping to infer what is happening when she is reading narrative and small paragraphs that she is to gleen inference from…in other words she is able to pick up on information by what she observes and the reading genre she is inferring from is easier for her to read and comprehend.
Expository text is usually harder for kids to comprehend. If she has weak background vocabulary in expository information this will definitely have a negative impact on expository/literal comprehension.