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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I think PP's point is it's weird that a parent would know if kids are coming into K reading - and even weirder, the exact number of kids??  Information about the former I suppose one could gather by volunteering in the classroom, but the latter really seems to imply that this parent is keeping score.[/b]
Keep in mind that you really don't know the full story about a child by volunteering for a few hours here and there in the classroom.  For example, our DS in K is reading at an advanced level.  But - he also has an IEP for speech and significant fine motor delays; his handwriting is awful.  Depending on which tasks you see him doing, he may present as ahead of the pack, or noticably behind.[/quote]

Yes, I am the PP who referenced the quote that 8 out of 20 kids were reading at the beginning of K at one school.  It just seemed strange that someone would know this right at the beginning of school and give an exact #.  If they said something like, "I volunteered in my child's school in September and I would guess about half of the 20 students were able to read at that point," it would have seemed less strange to me.  The way it was written just sounds like there was a tally on day one and someone was keeping score.  Maybe they didn't mean it that way, but that was how it came across.

For the OP, my son is currently in 1st grade at a school in Arlington.  At the beginning of K last year, he was not reading at all.  By the end of the school year, he was reading quite fluently and over the summer he read the entire Magic Treehouse series and is now working his way through the TinTin books and is in the "highest" reading group in his class.  I am not saying this to brag, but just to show that even if your child is not reading at the beginning of K, it doesn't mean he or she is behind or will behind in the future.  [/quote]

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