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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My stays out of trouble by reading books.  He is in first grade and reads many grade levels above his current instructional level.  He used to misbehave esp in K b/c he fooled around when he finished his work quickly.  This year, our solution was to give him some books to keep in his desk to read when he finishes his work quickly.  He was really too immature to figure out what to do with himself when he finished his work in 5 mins and still had 20 mins left before the rest of the class finished.  It is better this year b/c he is in the highest reading group and his teacher can more easily deal with advanced kids who finish work quickly.[/quote]

Excellent solution![/quote]

I disagree.

It's not fair to a child, particularly a first grade boy, to ask him to zip through unchallenging material and then read quietly.  He has a right to appropriate material so that he too can learn.  This isn't education.

I hate these "gifted kid" discussions on DCUM but it's important to note that a child who's this advanced in reading isn't necessarily any more mature than his peers, and this is asking a lot of him, maturity-wise.  Maybe he can handle it but many kids couldn't and that doesn't mean they don't deserve an actual education.  Schools need a better way to deal with the reality that some kids (even some that don't end up "gifted") read earlier than others.  My DS was reading middle school chapter books by the time he arrived in kindergarten and they had NO idea how to deal with that.  It started a chain of bad educational accommodations that lasted for several years.[/quote]

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