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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 4th grader loved reading in second and third grade but it's gotten harder to find stuff that's both the right difficulty level, maturity level, AND is a story of interest to him. We try to do a lot of library trips and ensure he has a lot of options in case he likes one, which has helped in the last couple months. It takes a lot of effort to keep him in books!

That said, school really isn't helping this year!! He used to bring a book in his backpack to fill the time between drop off and school start, even trying to get to school early for reading time, and the end of the day if he finished his work. Now he's not allowed to read at the beginning of the day, if they're there early they have to do math on iReady. He's allowed to read for 10 minutes at the end of the day IF he's done 15 minutes of math and 15 minutes of ELA in iReady, but ONLY from one specific shelf in the classroom, nothing he selects from home or the school library. Yeah, he isn't allowed to read a school library book that isn't from that shelf.

As parents we tell him that if he's read all the books on the shelf, we'll talk to the teachers about it, but until then he can try out what's there. But I'm not thrilled that iReady has basically shoved out any opportunity for kids to enjoy reading in free moments. The school is really pushing it because their annual goals are all around iReady improvement, but these are elementary schoolers! [/quote]

I would have a meeting or email w/ the teacher to understand what is on the shelf.  I’d be fine if said shelf included a variety of genres and books at my kids level including a healthy dose of books my kid enjoyed.  But on some level I’d be perturbed because reading at ES should be about choice with adults supporting and encouraging diversity of books (genre, content, length, difficulty, characters)[/quote]

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