High-Level Reader Question

[Anonymous]

Have any of you been-there-done-that parents had a child max out on the reading levels in elementary school? Wondering what happens once a kid hits Z. Do schools just stop assessing b/c there's nowhere else to go and continue to work on deeper writing and understanding?

Tx.

[Anonymous]

What grade? Mine is in 4th and at Z also.

[Anonymous]

5th grader at Z - Z is just a placeholder, the teacher said. They still do Map R, and still evaluate and teach at their level, even if they are past the benchmarks for that grade.

[Anonymous]

4th grade

[Anonymous]

Interesting, on my 3rd graders report card the reading level was not filled in. I thought maybe MAP-R replaced that.

[Anonymous]

IME, there's really nothing for the this kind of high level reader at school. The level of books assigned to the class or reading group as a whole is usually substantially below the student's level, so working on "deeper writing and understanding" is hard with the lower level books.

Basically your best hope is if the teacher recognizes it and lets the child do independent work or read their own book after finishing the regular school work.

Worst case scenario is that the teacher gets mad or makes the child do extra or harder work after or in addition to the regular work.

I would suggest applying to HGC for this kind of student. The level of reading selection was higher there as well as the peer discussion, IME.

[Anonymous]

We got MAP-R and lexile scores but not an alphabetical one.

[Anonymous]

My z level fourth grader is at an HGC. This works well. The teacher divides them by specific areas that they need to work on instead of just reading level. No idea what happens in non HGC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We got MAP-R and lexile scores but not an alphabetical one.

It's on the report card.

[Anonymous]

At our HGC they don't group the kids by levels. The offer several different books (with the lexile level noted) and the kids can choose. At a certain point I don't really think it matters the exact level. Will a kid reading at the z level really find an x book boring/unchallenging? They are all obviously reading quite well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got MAP-R and lexile scores but not an alphabetical one.

It's on the report card.

Not on ours. Its filled in with a "1" which can't be correct since my third grader has a MAP-R score in the high 220s.

[Anonymous]

I was told the level at parent-teacher conference.

[Anonymous]

What's HGC?

[Anonymous]

highly gifted center

[Anonymous]

I think most kids at 4th grade HGC are at Z.

I am not sweating it - keep on giving him books to read for pleasure...different genres, topics...

If u think something needs to be done for language arts - analysis and essay writing is a great skill to encourage. And reading, reciting and analysing poetry is something even more challenging.