10-yr old, gifted kid who reads at 10th grade level also keeps reading Big Nate

[Anonymous]

OP, no matter how profoundly gifted he is, he’s still a 10 yo kid, and sometimes they just want to read something light and funny. Let him be a kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


He’s not that gifted, plenty of kids, including mine, are similarly situated in reading, and they all like to veg out with low-brow entertainment.

I assign some reading for my kids and let them entertain themselves how they want.

Actually he is that gifted.

Are you always such a jerk?

No, but you rubbed everyone the wrong way. You should know that DCUM doesn't like the term "gifted" because it's applied so often it loses all meaning. Moreover, your example of giftedness was something that many kids do!
You can mention your child's IQ in your original post next time, IF APPLICABLE to the discussion, so that people don't assume you're one of those parents. Which to all intents and purposes for this thread, you are. My son read college-level texts as a 5th grader. So what? He also read plenty of Calvin and Hobbes or other comics at that age.

Stop being so uptight.

[Anonymous]

My 10 year old who is not gifted in verbal areas reads around the same level as yours. Shouldn’t a profoundly gifted 10 year old be reading at a college level?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, no matter how profoundly gifted he is, he’s still a 10 yo kid, and sometimes they just want to read something light and funny. Let him be a kid.

x100

He's a kid! Let him enjoy and read what he reads. Reading Big Nate won't diminish his IQ or reading skills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, my son reads in the XYZ levels of the DRA system.

His preferred downtime reading this summer is Big Nate, which is something like a 3rd grade level. He's rediscovered the series after not reading it for several years. He's also reading Ballad of the Songbird and Snakes, a few Marie Lu books, and some other books that are more at his reading level.

Should I worry about is love of Big Nate? He likes to adopt sayings and attitudes from the book, which I find disconcerting. Big Nate is not exactly a great role model. I'm not going to censor his reading, but I'm just trying to figure out why a kid who can read years ahead of his grade level is reading something that he first read in 2nd grade.

Is this somehow indicative of emotional immaturity? Asynchronous development?

Just because your kid can technically read all the words, doesn’t mean he is developmentally or emotionally ready for the themes of those books. Your emotional IQ might be off kilter as well, if you think word recognition equals developmental and emotional reading level. Leave the poor kid alone.

[Anonymous]

This is got to be a troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


He’s not that gifted, plenty of kids, including mine, are similarly situated in reading, and they all like to veg out with low-brow entertainment.

I assign some reading for my kids and let them entertain themselves how they want.

Actually he is that gifted.

Are you always such a jerk?

No, but you rubbed everyone the wrong way. You should know that DCUM doesn't like the term "gifted" because it's applied so often it loses all meaning. Moreover, your example of giftedness was something that many kids do!
You can mention your child's IQ in your original post next time, IF APPLICABLE to the discussion, so that people don't assume you're one of those parents. Which to all intents and purposes for this thread, you are. My son read college-level texts as a 5th grader. So what? He also read plenty of Calvin and Hobbes or other comics at that age.

Stop being so uptight.

I think I learned more from Calvin & Hobbes than from any of my college textbooks

[Anonymous]

+1. I have no problem at all with my kids reading Calvin and Hobbes. It’s great stuff. We all live Asterix and Obelix, too, but most people aren’t familiar with those comics.

[Anonymous]

When dd was 10 she started reading YA and adult-level novels. She read 100 novels in one year. Kept track with her because I was so astonished. It wasn’t that year but maybe the year before that she “accidentally” bought every big Nate book on her kindle and read them. Now she mostly reads what she enjoys at a high level because she enjoys that high level. People do tend to read what they enjoy.

[Anonymous]

My son is the same. Maze Runner followed by Sherlock Holmes followed by Big Nate. As long as he is off his screens and doesn’t bother me, he is free to read a shampoo bottle for all I care!

[Anonymous]

Two years ago our 8 yo (now 10 yo) tested at a 30 yo reading level for vocabulary. Wtf right? He was reading Big Nate today.

[Anonymous]

One of my kids is 10 and PG as well (at the lower end of the PG range for the test he took). There is no harm in reading age appropriate things for pleasure. Actually I kind of like the fact that in some ways he is still a little kid.

[Anonymous]

Some people just like re-reading books and revisiting a fun and familiar world. Heck, I recently re-read a book that I first read when I was 12 (nearly 40 years ago) and have read more than a few times since. If that was all I ever read it would be a worry, but trust me i’ve read lots of other books in that time too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How did you decide that your child is reading on a 10th grade level? X and Y are 6th grade level. Z is 7th. It's honestly not that uncommon for bright 4th and 5th graders to read books in that range, especially for fun. I wouldn't assume that a child reading level XYZ in 4th/5th is even gifted. It's really much more common than you would imagine.

It's also not uncommon for them to slum it and read under their level for enjoyment.

OP here. I'm going off what his teacher reported. Z is DRA's 8th grade level. I have no idea how she knows that he'd reading at the 10th grade level. I'm assuming she has a way of assessing that.

As for being gifted, DS has been tested. He's is profoundly gifted with an SB score above 160. There are a lot of gifted kids in this area, but not a lot of PG kids.

Why are you hung up on how gifted DS is rather than responding to the question. Oh, you're one of those people who is convinced no child discussed on DCUM could possibly be gifted, and tearing down the poster.

It is nearly impossible to believe that someone like you sound to be, hears her kid tested at reading at a 10th grade level and yet she does not follow up with the teacher to see how that was determined.

—former teacher and do not believe your son was truly assessed at this level in elementary school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How did you decide that your child is reading on a 10th grade level? X and Y are 6th grade level. Z is 7th. It's honestly not that uncommon for bright 4th and 5th graders to read books in that range, especially for fun. I wouldn't assume that a child reading level XYZ in 4th/5th is even gifted. It's really much more common than you would imagine.

It's also not uncommon for them to slum it and read under their level for enjoyment.

OP here. I'm going off what his teacher reported. Z is DRA's 8th grade level. I have no idea how she knows that he'd reading at the 10th grade level. I'm assuming she has a way of assessing that.

As for being gifted, DS has been tested. He's is profoundly gifted with an SB score above 160. There are a lot of gifted kids in this area, but not a lot of PG kids.

Why are you hung up on how gifted DS is rather than responding to the question. Oh, you're one of those people who is convinced no child discussed on DCUM could possibly be gifted, and tearing down the poster.

It is nearly impossible to believe that someone like you sound to be, hears her kid tested at reading at a 10th grade level and yet she does not follow up with the teacher to see how that was determined.

—former teacher and do not believe your son was truly assessed at this level in elementary school

It's almost impossible to believe that you are educated enough to be a teacher given that you can't write a grammatical sentence.

It never occurred to me to ask how a teacher assesses reading level. I know there are many tools for assessing reading. It's not my business to micromanage my child's teacher. I trust she knows what she's doing, although if she wrote to me using your sentence structure, I'd start to question her intelligence and capability.