How to overcome lack of attention?

I'm not a formal teacher, but I help with private classes for some people. I have a particular student of young age, to whom I teach Portuguese, whose biggest difficulty is not the grammar per se, but to understand what the questions ask of him. At all subjects.

I've pinpointed the he reads mechanically and, in turn, selects only a few words and tries to figure out what the question wants from there. He fails at that almost ever.

Are there any pedagogical articles or exercises I could work with him?

Sorry if this does not belong here.

Submitted November 25, 2016 at 11:04AM by birnes http://ift.tt/2gurYBL