When Stories Don't Make Sense

He can read every word on the page. Ask him what happened and he has no idea.

Marcus is eight now. Speech therapy gave him his words, so this new problem does not look like a language problem at all. It looks like laziness, or not paying attention, or refusing to do the reading log.

Decoding and comprehension are two different skills. A child can read aloud beautifully and take in nothing. Third grade is where that gap stops hiding, because the work quietly shifts from learning to read to reading to learn.

When Stories Don't Make Sense is the second book in the Marcus Long series. It follows Marcus through that exact year, and it shows what actually helps, at school and at the kitchen table.

What you will see in these pages:

• Why a child who reads fluently can still understand none of it
• What the third grade shift asks of a child, and why it exposes this
• The behavior that gets punished when the real problem is comprehension
• Strategies that work in the classroom and at home
• Written by a developmental-behavioral pediatrician with 30 years in practice

Written for parents who suspect that "won't" is really "can't," teachers watching a bright student fall behind in reading, and the speech-language pathologists, psychologists and pediatricians who need something real to hand a family.

This is the digital edition. You get the PDF and the EPUB by instant download. This is not a printed book, and nothing is shipped to you.

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