The teacher is not aware of my DD's reading level

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My presumptions about the teacher are correct. She said herself she doesn't listen to kids read because she doesn't have time. So, of course, she is at best only vaguely aware of their kevels.

If she knows your kid's DRA level, she knows your kid's reading level in general. DRA is administered one on one, 2x a year. Most kindergarten teachers don't have reading groups per se, as you're expecting. Since she knows what the DRA. Level us and she knows better than you what the DRA level means, you are the one with the vague awareness. You vaguely know the books she's capable of reading and understanding. Without looking up what DRA level 16 means, your teacher knows precisely what month in first grade that would test your DD at in reading. You'd have no clue what that is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My presumptions about the teacher are correct. She said herself she doesn't listen to kids read because she doesn't have time. So, of course, she is at best only vaguely aware of their kevels.

She hasn't tested their reading levels yet this year??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My presumptions about the teacher are correct. She said herself she doesn't listen to kids read because she doesn't have time. So, of course, she is at best only vaguely aware of their kevels.

She hasn't tested their reading levels yet this year??

Evidently the teacher doesn't test the reading levels often enough. Since OP is opposed to a lot of testing, one would think that was a good thing! But OP doesn't seem to be happy about it.

[Anonymous]

The test was months ago. Children can fairly quickly progress in 6 months.

I really hope that the teachers don't just rely on test scores taken twice a year.

[Anonymous]

I'm against excessive testing. Iam, however, FOR listening to children read.

[Anonymous]

I'm against excessive testing. Iam, however, FOR listening to children read.

I suspect there is a communication problem between OP and teacher. I can see something like: "oh, I can't listen to Larla read every day" to teacher doesn't have time to listen to her read.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My presumptions about the teacher are correct. She said herself she doesn't listen to kids read because she doesn't have time. So, of course, she is at best only vaguely aware of their kevels.

And when you asked if your daughter could take home a more difficult book she said no? Have you even bothered to ask her this simple question? There are many teachers in K that don't listen to children read aloud regularly. In fact, for the children who read well this happens a lot and the teachers spend more time on comprehension questions because they know the children already read quite fluently. My advanced reader in K read silently every week or listened online to books and then just met with the teacher to give short summaries of what the book was about. It improved his silent reading skills and fluency when listening to others and the teacher helped improve his comprehension.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The test was months ago. Children can fairly quickly progress in 6 months.

I really hope that the teachers don't just rely on test scores taken twice a year.

My DD's teacher does not just rely on tests taken during the year - I'm surprised if yours is doing that. Doesn't your DD bring home books each week of varying levels? Do the levels seem to increase? (obviously except for this one case where she brought home a book too low)? I can tell from the books my DD brings home that the teacher is aware of progress. I don't feel like we are getting a full picture from OP - was this the ONLY book she has brought home all year?

[Anonymous]

OP has never let us know if she has actually asked for tougher books or not. All she has let us in on is this one time a volunteer sent home a book at the wrong level, and the teacher apparently has no time to listen to the kids read. (Ever?) So OP knows more than the teacher does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My presumptions about the teacher are correct. She said herself she doesn't listen to kids read because she doesn't have time. So, of course, she is at best only vaguely aware of their kevels.

While I generally get what you're saying, having had 2 advanced readers in k myself, the issue is that you have an inability to see why a teacher of kindergarten kids isn't routinely listening to kids that age read. Since many, many of them can't or are just emergent readers, this wouldn't work well on an ongoing basis for some children. For those that can read, in an ideal world, there would be active differentiation for all kids of all levels. We don't live in that world in the non-home school setting. Get used to it. You have many years ahead of you and this was truly a non-issue, esp. since the teacher DOES know your kid's level.

[Anonymous]

Question: what is the most important thing for a kid that can read?

Answer: to read!

As long as the child is reading, she will progress naturally. If she is that advanced, it will be pretty hard to stop her.

And, if you want her to read more difficult books, take her to the public library.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Question: what is the most important thing for a kid that can read?

Answer: to read!

As long as the child is reading, she will progress naturally. If she is that advanced, it will be pretty hard to stop her.

And, if you want her to read more difficult books, take her to the public library.

This. Which I said about 10 pages back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My presumptions about the teacher are correct. She said herself she doesn't listen to kids read because she doesn't have time. So, of course, she is at best only vaguely aware of their kevels.

I'm coming to strongly suspect you are the mother of my child's classmate. TC by any chance? I don't need an answer but if yes, give it a rest, you're making yourself look silly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My presumptions about the teacher are correct. She said herself she doesn't listen to kids read because she doesn't have time. So, of course, she is at best only vaguely aware of their kevels.

I'm coming to strongly suspect you are the mother of my child's classmate. TC by any chance? I don't need an answer but if yes, give it a rest, you're making yourself look silly.

Not the OP but there are probably about 10,000 moms in exactly the same situation as the OP. Could be anyone. And she doesn't look silly she is frustrated and rightly so. The problem is when you write on here you get a majority of under-achievers who resent her position and aren't helpful or kind about it.

[Anonymous]

I think OP is mad because the teacher did not make it clear to the volunteer that OP's kid is way ahead of the rest in reading. Or, at least that is what she thinks.