Anxiety is not conducive to learning. If you are a struggling reader, the ability to interpret symbols that are all around you as you navigate your education can be overwhelming. To the untutored eye anxiety around reading can be interpreted as poor behaviour. If left unchecked and unidentified, this behaviour then becomes the most observable problem. The prognosis for these students is not good. Reading anxiety is a very real and very debilitating experience that contributes to school anxiety and weak self-esteem.