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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It just came to my attention that in my son's second grade class, the whole class doesn't get the same spelling words each week. This is only after asking a neighbor about one of the words, and she said her daughter didn't have that word this week. So at first I was thinking, ok so she must differentiate based on ability. But then I realized that she had the words that my son did just LAST week. (this is "word study" and for example this week he has IR, IRE, and IER words, last week it was ER, EAR, etc..) So there is no way they differentiate to just a one week difference! My son also informs me that he has never changed spelling groups, and has changed reading groups only once (probably after the January DRA). My other beef with differentiation is that they never tell you what math class your child is in. They do flexible math grouping which I like, but the accelerated teacher changes each unit (so they say) so that you/the children can't figure out who is in the smart class, dumb class, whatever. For some reason this really bothers me and I wonder how it is done at other schools around here? We are in western Fairfax County. Thanks.[/quote]

We're not in the same school as we're not in Western Fairfax.  Our school does flexible grouping for math, too, and the accelerated teacher switches around, too.  My daughter usually figures out which group she is in (sometimes highest, sometimes middle).  For my 2nd grader, I'm pretty sure my daughter is in the highest reading group, although the teacher never told me.  They are also in different groups for spelling, because one day a classmate called her because she left her spelling words at home and called us because my daughter was in her group - I have no idea which level it is in.  My first grader's teacher actually told me at our conference that my child was in the 2nd highest reading group.  That's the first time a teacher has outright told me.  And I actually appreciate knowing exactly where she is, and agree she's probably in the right place.  The teacher said she has the ability to move up to the highest group if she gets in more practice.  [/quote]

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