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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IME, teachers really don't do much in reading groups.   At the early ages(K-2) the groups meet daily or every other day.  At the older ages 3+ they meet once or twice a week.

The teacher has a group of 4-8 students seated in a semi-circle and he/she listens while they all mumble out loud the words on the page.  Then the teacher asks some questions about the book (reading comp. type questions).  Then, the group is usually dismissed with some assignment to answer a question or write a journal entry about the section read.

My DC was having diffficulty reading but the teacher never noticed because he just mumbled along slightly behind the other kids and simply by listening to others picked up what he needed to know to appear to have understood.

There is virtually no teaching of phonics/decoding after K or 1st grade, which means that kids are left with only a basic understanding of the letter/sound correspondence.  Many kids figure this out on their own as they hear and see words naturally in their environment, but many others do not and need explicit phonics instruction which is not provided in any MCPS school until a child falls behind 2 or more grade levels.  [/quote]

OP here. This is what it sounds like is going on in DD class. The frequency with which they meet is erratic and since there isn't anyone else at her level in class, she's "reviewing her reading' with the rest. Apparently that is what the teacher told her. The teacher says she is already rushed and this week when the group met DD didn't participate, because the book was too simple - essentially missing out on any guided reading in school.

I'm not optimistic that anything will change if I go in and advocate. We read at home but I could potentially find 15 mins to do guided reading sort of thing. Any suggestions for resources on how to do it at home when school can't address it?

Obviously the benefit of doing it in a group where you learn from your peers will be missing - but just silently reading yourself in class seems unproductive[/quote]

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