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As for the teacher, maybe she sees something that you do not.  If your child is already able to read Harry Potter, bringing home a book below her level is not going to harm her.  Do you never read just for relaxation?  Maybe you daughter is picking out a book that her friend likes.  Maybe she doesn't want to read a challenging book.  Did you ask your daughter?

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I wrote earlier that the teacher explained it that she "doesn't have time to listen to them read".  So she asked for parent volunteers to come and listen and assign books.  Some mom came and mixed up the books, and sent wrong books for the whole class.  So the mystery is solved.[/quote]

But you failed to write and say, "Gee, I'm feeling sheepish that I jumped the gun and just assumed that my DD's teacher didn't know her reading level.  Kind of silly of me to think that since "the school assessed her at a 2nd grade level," [albeit on a fluency, not a comprehension test."  Instead, you continually wrote things like not needing a formal test to know your own child's reading level.  Before you started this post, I guarantee you had zero idea what goes into assessing a child's reading level yet you can't even acknowledge that, nope, maybe you don't know her true level.  Try this:  give her a true second grade level nonfiction book.  Have her read it aloud.  Take it away.  Have her retell it to you from beginning to end, in order.  Stop being such a know it all.  You make it seem like the "mystery" here was just that the books came home a single day that were beneath your kid's level, but in truth you've posted several responses in this thread that clearly let us know you know more than the teacher, you don't need to "formally test" your kid to know her reading level, that a highly criticized fluency test (which you didn't spell right) is an accurate reflection of her reading level (though presumably that test was given by the same teacher whom you claim doesn't know your kid's reading level).  I could go on but you're exhausting me being right all the time.[/quote]

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