Fourth-Grade Slump

My child is in the 4th grade and he is having this 4th grade slump and the teacher is so admit about him going to see a neurologist about this and I spoke with his tutor who has her master and also teaching in a college and she immediately told me what he was having, and his 4th grade teacher who has been teaching for 19 years ? and could not figure this out? I have emiled all the information about this to her and hopefully she'll read this and consider holding him back, and I did recommend if he had a tutor could he be promoted to the 5th grade, and my son asked me if he get and A on his math test would that bring his bad grade up to a C and I told him I guess it would be possible.

fourth grade is also when students move from "right-there" answers to being asked inferential ones. they are now expected to be able to read from and interpret meaning from texts, all of a sudden they are no longer just being asked the 5 w's but are now being asked about meaning and feelings, they are also given textbooks in various subjects for the first time, reading is not for enjoyment as much as a source of information. many times they are not taught how to read these texts are are not able to make the transition- this is where we loose most struggling readers, and many even by the time they reach 8th grade- are still at this fourth grade level of reading. It's not always lost interest but not having the skills to interpret and understand hat they are reading.