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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The books they read at school are not meant to be an exciting story but texts short enough to read together and write about.   The writing is the part they are working on.    I would try to explain that versus talking to the teacher.     She's got a long way to go, it will be years of this.  My son has always been in the highest reading group (K through 3rd grade) and the books he has read have always been way beneath the level he reads at home.   I told him that's because he was working on his writing.[/quote]

Thanks, that's helpful.  I don't think that the "reading group" part is also the writing part, though, is it?  To hear her describe it, the reading group doesn't involve a writing component.  But then they have "writer's workshop" where they pick out a book and read it and write about it.  For that, she gets to pick a book she wants to read, so that's fine.   It would be good to actually know this stuff.  I suspect it differs from school to school.   But even if they do read short texts, i get the sense from her that it's all really basic words.  Is that how it's supposed to be?
But I think i'm going to wait a bit, see what the reading level says on the report card and if it jives with what I see at home.  Also, give it a couple weeks to shake out. [/quote]

So what was the reading level on her report card, OP?[/quote]

12.  Not 16!  But I looked at the samples for reading levels, and she's totally past 16.  So either she had a bad day for the assessment, or she hasn't had one in a while, or my understanding of the levels is totally off.  But i can see why she's frustrated.  I just don't want her to be upset about it.  I think that it's likely she'll move up if there's another assessment soon.  If not, the reading group time just isn't that much time and we'll make up for it at home.  Meanwhile, getting the kid to write is like asking her to brush her teeth with glass... always something.
Anyway, these are lucky problems.  Healthy, happy kid.  [/quote]

I agree that reading group really doesn't matter, especially in kindergarten.  Also, the books that she is reading during school might be helping her in the writing domain.

She may just really be a 12.  And do not be surprised if she is assessed at 16 at the end of the year.  DD was reading rainbow fairies and magic tree houses (which are level M), 2 or 3 a day at one point and was only assessed at a level K.  They seem to always asses lower than they perform at home.[/quote]

Thanks!  Yep those are what mine reads at home too, fluently and definitely with no comprehension problems. But yeah I agree that reading lower-level stuff might actually be helpful for learning to write and remembering how to spell those words. So I'm not worried. But I do think something is a bit off with that gap between the assessment and what she seems to actually do.[/quote]

But it's not just what level they read at, the assessment also looks at their writing![/quote]

That's not correct, at least not in kindergarten in our school.[/quote]

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