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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This just isn't that big of a deal.  What books is your child reading at home right now?  Don't increase it - just the truth - what books is she reading on her own?[/quote]
[b]She does not read on her own[/b].  We read together at night.  [u]I read to her and then I give her a book to read. [/u] I don't give her a choice.  Well, sometimes I give her a choice, but they are all the same level.  At first it was BOBBooks, now it's books from the Scholastic "I can read" series, level 1 and 2.

She can read them and comprehend [b]most[/b] of the text.[/quote]

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That level of books is very, very easy.  Your DD is already resistant evidenced by not reading on her own, unless you make her do it and while I guess her level may be ahead of other kindergarteners, that is still an easy level of books.  So I would be far more concerned if I were you about fostering a love of reading in your child than "challenging" her and concerned she'll be "bored" as you've stated.  Looks like you have much bigger things to focus on and worry about.  [/quote]

If you read the book first and then hand it to her, it is NOT her level.  That means that you are decoding the book first and then handing it to her and not giving her a choice but making her read it.  You also have clarified that she hasn't tested at a DRA of a 16, but that after you complained to the teacher that she has gotten books you deemed too easy, the teacher sent home a book of a DRA level of a 16.  [/quote]

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