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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was amazed how little information traveled with the kid to the next teacher. When my DD entered K, I realized the K teacher has not been given anything by the PK4 teacher. So I reached out to the K teacher asking what the advanced reading options were. She offered that DD could do phonics with the 1st graders. I provided the PK4 teacher's dibels data showing 3rd grade level. Very surprised that doesn't travel with the kid![/quote]

Between PK and K there is often not a ton of communication beyond identifying kids who are not ready for K-level work so the school can set up programs to help them.

However, we found that the info does start to travel with the kid starting in K. We have a kid who really leaped ahead in reading at K. She was maybe a little above grade level coming into K (could already read basic texts) but by the end of that year she was reading 3rd/4th grade chapter books and it grew from there. The school was definitely aware and each year had a gameplan in place even before we met/spoke to the new teacher to facilitate. In 1st, there was another very advanced reader in her class and the teacher used centers time (while other kids were rotating) to do small group lessons with them, and also provided opportunities for them to work on reading comp (they would do "reading reports" based on reading they were assigned to work on in lieu of the phonics work other kids were doing). It was great and more than I expected. In second she started doing pullouts to a group of advanced readers from multiple grades, with one of the APs, three times a week. This was wonderful because instead of going into a 4th or 5th grade classroom and having to join a group of older students, it was a mixed age group of kids who were advanced readers and they would read books or excerpts together, discuss them, and do small assignments on them.

Again, this was set up without us having to push. They knew they had some advanced readers in the school and sought ways to meet them where they were at. Also there are way more assessments once kids get to K in DCPS (beginning of year, middle of year, end of year) and more tracking of progress. So teachers become very aware of who the advanced kids are and communicate with teachers in other grades about it. IME it also clearly influences class assignments, though in that respect not always in the way you want (they do not always cluster advanced learners together, sometimes they spread them out, which can be good for the school but not always best for the individual learner, it depends).[/quote]

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