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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no idea what novels my kid read in 5th this year but i just saw they scored 96-99th percentile on their reading assessments. They must be doing something right. [/quote]

Diebels seems like more of a screener for below benchmark rather than a leveling assessment ?[/quote]

The point is parents are helicoptering over which/how many novels their kids are reading. If youre that concerned, get your kids more books. If they’re below benchmarks call the reading specialist. There are resources for every kid. APS is not failing kids on literacy bevy they’re not reading the same 10 novels. [/quote]

I mean I can get them a high powered laptop and a guitar, but I don't expect them to become a FAANG employee or rock star all on their own.  Reading complex literature, understanding the themes and processing content that spans more than a paragraph are important skills for any career, and practice and instruction are part of that.  Sure I can HOMESCHOOL them for their reading curriculum, but I already have a job and I hate to have my kid wasting 6 hrs of their day waiting for other kids to READ OUT LOUD.

How can there really not be more novels assigned? Why is there not earlier reading differentiation, since even at 5th grade some students are very advanced readers and need more to be challenged -- even if not marked "gifted" (and since APS switched to push in, gifted has been a bit of a farce)[/quote]

If you can, homeschool them for reading (and, if possible, also public speaking).  The truth is that being articulate and having a robust vocabulary, both developed by reading voraciously, will be the key differentiator in interviews (as if it’s not already) when all kids are on an equitable pass/fail grading system.[/quote]

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