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What crappy teaching. The teacher should allow your child to read what interests him at home, so that reading continues to be as fun as possible.

Ask for exactly that, OP. Is there any testing score you can based your argument on?
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PP here, the one with the 97% comment.

I'm not a big fan of early elementary homework, but we're talking about a reading assignment of 76 words, that OP's kid apparently read fluently.  Surely he still has time to read other things.

I've heard of teachers trying to limit everything students read to books that are on level, and that's wrong, but sending home one text at a time that a kid can read fluently is not anywhere close to the same thing.
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OP here. I'm just hoping this is what the teacher is doing, and not that my child isn't reading for his teacher as he reads for me. I'm afraid he might be shy to read for her (afraid he will get a word wrong or something.) Though I ask and he says he reads the same kind of books with his teacher and "never slips up" on words.[/quote]

How often is he "slipping up" when he reads with you?

At school, his independent reading and some of the reading he does with support should be texts where he's stopping to problem solve less than 5% of the time.  That includes words someone has to help him with, and words where he figures it out himself, but the strategy (e.g. missing the word and then self correcting, or sounding a word out, or going back to reread a sentence to try a word) stops the flow of the reading.

Some of the texts he reads with support should be one level up from there, so likely an E, or maybe an F.

That doesn't mean that he shouldn't have experience with a wider variety of texts when it's his choice what to read.  In those situations, he should read whatever he enjoys.[/quote]

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