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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New curriculum is putting more emphasis on writing. Did find with my now incoming 3rd grader that his reading was assessed far less in 2nd grade. (He was in a similar situation to your child, OP). Report card reading levels didn't change over several quarters during his 2nd grade school year. Final report card placed him at a level W. So, we've had a different experience than other posters about the level stagnating. Writing is supposed to be part of the assessment at all grades.

Here's the reading targets chart from MCPS: http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/curriculum/english/elementary/ReadingTargets-KthruGrade5.pdf

Questions you should ask school are whether they are giving your child William & Mary reading curriculum. This is a curriculum that is supposed to be implemented for high-level readers that encourages/teaches critical thinking. Also, would be good for your own piece of mind to know that they have an appropriate reading group of multiple children at same level as yours. Without that, it's unlikely that your child will get appropriate resources that teach him. I did experience this year a situation in which my child told me that he rarely had reading group and was just told to read whatever he wanted on his own.Am hoping 3rd grade will be better...[/quote]

This was our experience exactly.  Our DC just completed 3rd grade and will be attending a HGC program next year.  We found that the home school was spreading the kids who had the highest reading levels among the various 3rd grade classes, so that there really wasn't an adequate peer group in any one class.  Our child would go for weeks without reading group.[/quote]

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