Reply to Reading level not tied to writing

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Reading level not tied to writing"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Decoding and comprehension can be very asynchronous.  For other children they can track together.  Expecting written responses to comprehension questions in 2nd grade is on-grade, and if a K-er is reading and comprehending 2nd grade texts perfectly but is struggling with writing, then it's unlikely that that K-er should be moving on to 3rd grade texts, from a maturity level, anyway.  No child is harmed by tying requiring written responses to comprehension questions.  [/quote]

That's absolutely false. Do you know anything about education and have you ever looked at the science that shows many kids aren't developmentally ready to write as well as they can think or speak in early elementary? This type of ignorant thinking leads hurting some of the most vulnerable kids who check out of school early because they are not interested in the work. It is not okay to force a child who can read chapter books to read Bob-type books and discuss them because he can't write even though he's able to articulate the answers to comprehension questions. They are completely different skills.[/quote]

This.  Even our child's 1st grade teacher said this, and thinks that they require too much in the way of writing in the reading assessments.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics