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[quote=Anonymous]There is a natural tendency when you group kids for instruction to teach to the middle level.

If you have whole group instruction, and your kids range in level from A (lowest) to G (highest)  (I'm just making up letters here, not using the actual reading scale), lessons will be geared towards Level D.   Kids at levels C, D and E will get the most out of that instruction.  Kids at F and G will not improve much, but they won't get worse.   Kids at levels A will not get instruction that they can deal with.  In this scenario, the kids in level B and C will basically be pushed a bit, to reach the level D which is the average of the class.   Some will fail but some will advance because the expectation is higher than where they are.

If you separate the groups into 3 levels, there will be the low group (A, B,C) the middle group (D) and the advanced group (E, F,G).         Again there is a natural tendency to gear your lessons to the middle, so now in the low group instruction will be geared to level B.   The kids in level C therefore will be held back.   You could say that as soon as they are ready the kids in group C will be moved to group D but in reality group D is usually full already so the level C kids will be held back -- there's no room in group D for them.

Grouping works better for kids in the high group because now they will get instruction geared to Group F, instead of group D.   It would be particularly beneficial to kids at Level E who now would be pushed by more expectations of working at the F level.

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