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AAP teacher here and agree. [b]If a child is reading below grade level they will struggle with AAP SS/Science.[/b] They are probably not getting Full AAP. Our school is a LL4 and we try to incorporate a few AAP materials in the GenEd classrooms per quarter but they are not doing the full curriculum because we have many kids struggling with the normal curriculum. My class is Level 4 and Level 3 students. [/quote]

Not necessarily.  Reading is not highly correlated to intelligence.  My DC has very severe dyslexia and has always read below grade level, despite years and years of intervention.  They received appropriate accommodations so that they could access the material.  Their accommodations included  electronic textbooks, a reader and scribe for assessments, Kurzweil ….  They have an aptitude for math and science. They took AAP for math and science.  They went on to major in math and biology in college and are now in a PhD program in math theory.

Do not penalize students because they have a reading disability. [/quote]

I am PP who is an AAP teacher. Not penalizing students just stating that kids who struggle with reading may struggle with SS/Science. We do a ton of reading in SS/Science. I have students with reading/writing disabilities. I am talking about how doing AAP SS/Science is not realistic for grades with huge needs in reading. For example, if you have 40 percent or more of a grade reading below grade level asking them to analyze a wordy primary source from the 1700’s will be difficult. I am quite aware of twice exceptional students but my previous post was addressing large populations of kids who struggle to read. [/quote]How would you help a severely dyslexic and dysgraphia student access the primary source document from 1700 so they might analyze it?  You would do the same thing for the students in the classroom with 50 or more below grade level in reading.  [/quote]

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