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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Foundational skills are assessing your child’s skill set and not growth. Currently your child is not on grade level for reading. It might not be fun to hear, but at least you know and the school is already working with you to improve your child’s reading. However, if you want quicker progress, you might consider adding in outside tutoring. Unfortunately, reading can’t be remediated super quickly- especially in large classes. Tbh, that sounds like the LEAST subjective grade.

The rest in elementary school can vary a lot by teacher- though that’s true of other grade levels too.[/quote]

I remember the school doing half-baked assessments. One of my kids had a new teacher who seemed overwhelmed by having to assess 25 kids in a short-span. She mostly just rubber-stamped whatever the previous year's teacher said. Their feedback seemed off to me so I had a private reading assessment done and found yes  in fact they were off by  a half-dozen reading levels. I just continued to work with my kid at the appropriate level since the school wasn't interested in my opinion, but later that year when a more seasoned teacher did the follow-up assessment they actually did get it right. My point is the school doesn't always get these things right and you may want to seek an outside evaluation.[/quote]

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