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I've worked with students like this. Some of the time it's that reading is something they see as fun or an activity that belongs to them, so they don't want to participate in class. Have you talked to the student about it?
Bowl Leader
I’ve experienced this several times. It depends, some students, need some type of escape from just life, and it prevents them from flipping out, others are capable of balancing their love of reading and classwork.
Mentor
Is it possible they get frustrated because they are lapping their classmates?
Writing , have her to audio record in Googleher assignments or use MOTE Extention, this might help. I did something like this for a student assignment that was fearful about presentation. Maybe or may be not!
I have several students who love to read but avoid analysis like the plague. They avoid skills that they feel are difficult. We have experimented with using project assessments like one pagers, character analysis shields/crests, motif quilts, etc. with some mixed results. We have also worked from 1 questions analysis bell ringers that they read to a partner and eventually expanding to a prescriptive analysis paragraph that provides sentence starters.
She loves to read. She's not interested in compliansce, in jumping through hoops to complete reading activities that don't look very much at all like the pleasure reading she enjoys.
There really isn't any sort of conflict or surprise there. Depending on how much autonomy you have, you might be able to tailor assignments to her interest so you can give her credit for the reading skills she almost certainly has but doesn't feel like demonstrating on classwork. But this square peg probably isn't going to fit herself into a round hole.
Sometimes this is passive aggressive behavior. The student is displeased or may dislike you (it happens) or the class (feels it’s beneath her skill set) and expresses this by disengaging from the class activity.
If her grades are up to par, I’d have to say I don’t worry about it. If the grades note, we have a very candid discussion. If I must I pump the parent(s) for insights. If she’s bored and can handle it, give her more challenging literature and higher level work. Assign one or two of the lower performing students to her to tutor while she works. If she’s truly advanced, maybe she needs a move to an honors class.
These are some of the things that teachers did for me when I was in school, and I have done for my students over the years.