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[quote=Anonymous]Very high MAP scores correlate with deep understanding and cognitive thinking skills. It's not sufficient to decode, the test-taker needs reading comprehension and vocabulary. It's normal for MAP scores to fluctuate and for the progression to be non-linear.

For reading: if your child is in elementary, read to your kid, more advanced books than they might be able to tackle themselves. Select ones that have rich vocabulary and more complex sentence structure - classics are usually more complex than moderns. Stop every now and then, to make sure your kid understands the words and follows the plot: ie, has a micro and macro understanding of the story. Ask questions to evaluate your kid's depth of understanding.

There are workbooks you can buy to develop reading comprehension (some good ones at the Critical Thinking Company), and one specifically geared towards understanding inferences in texts, called Inference Jones (two levels of books). I highly recommend them as summer brain drain prevention ;-)
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