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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are students even assigned to read entire books in ES and MS? My neighbor told me her kids have never been expected to read an entire book, only excerpts. WTH? Why?[/quote]
I don’t think your neighbor knows what she’s talking about. In elementary school they may read excerpts, but kids definitely read whole books in middle school language classes.[/quote].

Are you talking mcps.  Mine have never read more than two books a year.  [/quote]

That’s absolutely awful.

My kid’s private school requires rising 3rd graders, for example, to read 4 chapter books over the summer and be ready to discuss them when school starts.

Starting with 3rd grade, summer reading lists need to be signed by the parent and brought into school on the first day. [/quote]

Same. And they started assigning students to write chapter summaries of one of the required summer reading books before 4th grade. They also had math work on IXL which was a review of the previous year's math plus a preview of the next year.

In 3rd grade, they had cumulative midterms and finals for 2 classes. In 4th, they added two more classes and in 5th, two more classes so by MS, they have six midterms and finals for every class. I believe they were smaller percentages of the final grade in the early grades and something like 25% by 6th grade. [/quote]

My rising 2nd grader had to read at least 5 books over the summer in addition to 20 minutes of reading per day. She also had to review sight word lists. For math, she had to do a review packet and do IXL work three times a week. [/quote]

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