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But I do agree that the concept of reading comprehension seems not to
be much of a priority in schools. It happened many years ago now, but
when my eldest was in the sixth grade, he was having great
difficulties in class and the teachers were perplexed. We had him
tested at a university reading center and they discovered that, while
he read at about the 9th-grade level, he was comprehending at the
second-grade level. He could say the words, but had no idea what they
meant. The school system reading "specialists" were mystified. They
didn't seem to understand that saying the words and understanding the
words were two different things. This is, of course, a sample of one,
so I can't say that all reading specialists are this ignorant, or
that this group was even typical, but it did alert me to the
existence of a problem that I had not realized existed.