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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am curious about whether there is a MCPS curriculum decision to not have small reading groups in 2nd grade but instead to read books as a whole classroom so that all students can experience the same books and discussion at the same time. 
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I’ve never known 2nd grade not to have reading groups.  Alternatively, reading groups have never substituted for the teacher reading a book to entire class.  Both are usually done.[/quote]

At our ES they had them but kids at or above grade level only met once every 1-2 months where as the struggling readers met almost daily.[/quote]

Because reading groups are a remedial technique.  Not sure why parents of advanced readers want them.  [/quote]

Mine was a very advanced reader, already reading long chapter books like Beverly Cleary and Harry Potter when she started kindergarten, and rarely had pullout reading groups after about the first half of K. She mostly did independent reading during that time, and after she’d finished her work. Between books from home and an excellent school librarian, we made sure she always had appropriately challenging books in her backpack. So she still managed to make good progress in reading skills, and was far above grade level when they started the Great Books (William & Mary?) program in 3rd.

She had an excellent teacher in 1st, who didn’t necessarily do pullouts or specific enrichment, but made sure she had an appropriate list of spelling words, for instance, and suggested challenging material for independent work or after she’d finished her regular classwork. I felt like that was a really good solution, at least for my kid. She’d have been bored and annoyed with yet another worksheet, but a harder book about an interesting topic was like handing her a treasure. [/quote]

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