3rd grade reading/benchmark etc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is just a vent… so apparently the kids who are ‘advanced’ in reading based on the MAP R scores are being enriched. They are pulled out for novel study while the rest of not advanced kids ‘read’ their ‘magazines’ in class. Magazines refers to the benchmark ‘books’. Shouldn’t the non advanced kids also get some novel study or something? How in the world are we going to close the achievement gap by enriching those who are already advanced?? Doesn’t this widen the gap? .. vent over

It's likely that the "non-advanced" kids aren't getting novel study, because they don't have the ability to do so yet. So they get extra time working on reaching benchmark levels with the teacher and work at a different pace.

On the flip side of the argument, is it fair to the "advanced" kids to sit around and be bored if the enrichment lessons were eliminated for fairness reasons? They deserve an education at their pace too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is just a vent… so apparently the kids who are ‘advanced’ in reading based on the MAP R scores are being enriched. They are pulled out for novel study while the rest of not advanced kids ‘read’ their ‘magazines’ in class. Magazines refers to the benchmark ‘books’. Shouldn’t the non advanced kids also get some novel study or something? How in the world are we going to close the achievement gap by enriching those who are already advanced?? Doesn’t this widen the gap? .. vent over

It's likely that the "non-advanced" kids aren't getting novel study, because they don't have the ability to do so yet. So they get extra time working on reaching benchmark levels with the teacher and work at a different pace.

On the flip side of the argument, is it fair to the "advanced" kids to sit around and be bored if the enrichment lessons were eliminated for fairness reasons? They deserve an education at their pace too.

That'll never happen.