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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm just trying to figure out how well prepared DD needs to be by the time she starts kindergarten in Fairfax County. Should she be able to add and subtract? Is the expectation that she will know all her letters, or that she will actually be able to read? We just moved back to the US from overseas, and it all seems overwhelming. Thanks. [/quote]

[list]Really all depends on if your aspirations are for the AAP program or not.  If so you need to make sure they are reading and have early math skills, actually, overall academic skills because by the end of kindergarten these children will be pinged for potential AAP.  In first grade, they receive their first abilities test.  From there they are stream lined into an AAP program.  So if AAP is your goal make sure your child is a very strong reader, etc..., going into kindergarten.  While social is very important, the AAP program really doesn't care about that.[/quote]

So every kid who is in AAP in third grade was reading when they started kindergarten?  Can you describe what a "very strong reader" is when they start kindergarten? [/quote]

I can only say a hearty BALOGNA!!!  My child could not read going into kindergarten and only read very short books in kindergarten that had 4 words on a page (that's what they sent home in the spring months).  We just did what the teachers told us to do.  We didn't know that it was age-appropriate to expect child to read more.  So we never encouraged or pushed.  We have always read to DC a lot.

At the beginning of first grade, DC was a DRA 6.  Very normal, very beginning reader.  We followed the instructions to have DC read the leveled reading books that were sent home each week.  We did just as the teacher asked, nothing more, but very consistent about doing those leveled reading books.  By the end of the year, DC was a DRA 28.  On the CogAT, DC scored in the 99th percentile in the verbal section.

[b]Moral of the story... your child does NOT need to be an early or precocious reader in kindergarten or first grade to be an excellent reader in second grade, or to qualify for AAP.[/b]  [/quote]

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