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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When people say 5-6 grade levels ahead what do they mean and what are they basing that on. For instance, my kid’s EOY 2nd grade testing would put them at end of 4th grade placement-wise according to the iready table; however, it’s actually the 50th percentile+ for 6th graders EOY. Do people call that 2 grades ahead or 4 grades ahead? The former seems accurate anecdotally, the latter does not. Assuming the former is the definition, there is no world in which most UMC kids are 5-6 grade levels ahead per a PP. My kid has among the highest scores in her grade. There are 5 kids within a few points of each on iReady and 20 of each other on RI; there’s no one above that. I’m sure some grades have a superstar that ours lacks, but we’re at a good non-T1 school and there is no one who would qualify as 5-6 grade levels ahead, much less “most” UMC students.[/quote]

At end of 2nd kids scores are at the mid year average for 9th grade in reading. [/quote]

Ooooookay. So here are a few books at the official 9th grade reading level:
Brave New World
To Kill a Mockingbird
Catcher in the Rye
March, by John Lewis
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

A 2nd grader who reads and truly understands those books-- in the amount of time a 9th grader would be given-- and can meet the 9th grade ELA standard for complexity and completeness of written response, is truly a genius. Knowledgeable, mature and insightful far beyond their years. Hardly anyone could meet that standard. What we do have here in DC is a lot of bright little kids who are early fluent readers, and whose parents' understanding of grade level and testing is so un-informed that they think their child is much smarter than the child actually is.[/quote]

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