Development team lead looking for advice on struggling juniors.

As the title suggests, I'm looking for some advice.

I have a few juniors in my team that are having a hard time at the moment. The first has about a year's worth of experience, the other about a month.

The one with a year's worth of experience can do some solid work when he puts his mind to it, but I swear whether he'll do that or not largely depends on the weather. It seems like there is a challenge taking the requirements and putting it into practice. As a team we spec it out, exactly what needs to be done and what it should do. But between that and working code there seems to bean issue. Sometimes I listen to the questions asked and it's just like "What the heck are you on about? That has nothing to do with what you're supposed to be doing."

The other individual is fresh out of university. Smart kid, but holy crap all the kid wants to do is read documentation. Yes, please, read the documentation it is important. But at some point you need to actually put your fingers on the keys and write some code. It seems like this individual don't like struggling; constantly pivots to a different solution from the one required, tries to solve some other problem that in a hackish way kinda solves the problem at hand, and when forced to do something in a specific way there is no progress made what so ever.

As someone who is/has been a developer myself and started as a junior as well, I can't say I had to deal with either of these issues. I had tons of flaws, don't get me wrong, but not these. Thus I don't really know how to help them improve.

I need to help these folks, otherwise I won't get any work done myself, and I'll just get more and more frustrated.

Anyone out there have some suggestions for me? Or possibly have had to deal with similar situations?