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[quote=Anonymous]PPs who noted that the teachers and principal have a lot of leeway on this are right.  Principals can pull students into ELC (and compacted math) based on school-level evaluation, teacher recommendations, etc.

But bear in mind that ELC (or CES) being a *good fit* for a child's reading/writing skills probably has much less to do with MAP (or any other) scores than parents of younger students tend to think.

The ELC curriculum (which has much in common with what is covered in CES, although I think there is definitely variance) requires a great deal of literary interpretation, analytical work, and long-term independent projects that involve reading entire age-appropriate books and writing about them.  It has a lot more to do with thinking about authorial style, use of language, and the construction of argumentation--and not all of this is explicitly taught and practiced, so it often has to be dealt with outside of school.  My 4th grader is learning a great deal, but here at home we are definitely partners with the teacher and the curriculum.  And it has nothing to do with DC's lexile level or ability to comprehend texts of X scale of difficulty.  It has to do with being able to intuit the skills needed for what we parents might better recognize as good middle-school level English courses from our youth.

And all of this helps to make ELC determination more of an art than a science.  There are plenty of kids with high lexile levels who would be really turned off by long-term writing projects, for example, and there are surely lots of kids with bubble-level MAP scores ( = on the borderline) who love to write for whom ELC would be a terrific fit.  That is why talking with the teacher (and team leader, if applicable) and principal makes a lot of sense.  Go for it!  Our principal really cares about getting this right, and I hope yours does too.[/quote]

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