Jack is very interested in mysteries and adventure stories. He really liked Titanic and Pompeii . However, it was necessary for Jack's teachers to read these books to him. Most of Jack's classmates can read these books independently.
Phonological awareness is okay.
Jack has adequate decoding strategies and uses picture cues, but he processes very slowly which is a huge obstacle to comprehension and discourages independent reading. Fluency and automaticity are his biggest problems. Hearing comprehension is excellent. Local Project Read fluency standard for Jack's grade level is 60 wpm. He is currently averaging about 20 wpm on grade level materials.