Reading+&+Comprehension

Scenario-Your 4th grade Chinese student seems to be very good at Math. He gets spells accurately in his daily work. No one in your class knows the names of the state capitals better than he does. However, he seems to have a hard time comprehending a simple reading passage.

Response-The skills this student excels at are all rote memory skills. This reflects the education of the students country where memorization and regurgitation are the way students learn. Asian students may become excellent at decoding words. Their parents think that they can read and they may even fool their teachers for a while. They may not have good reading comprehension skills.