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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It amazes me that parents will pour so much time, effort, money and angst into test prep., but then let their kids spend hours sitting in front of the TV, video games, the internet, etc.  If you want to raise you child's FxAT, Cogat, and/ or WISC scores (and ultimately their SATs) turn off the TV/ computer and encourage your kids to engage in creative play, arts and crafts, music, building w/ legos, Thinkfun games and sports.  But most importantly, make reading a priority for your entire family-- it's a great habit to have your child pick up as early as possible.

Take your kids to the library and bookstore, work with your school's reading specialist to find out your child's DRA or Lexile level so that you can help your child find appropriate fiction or nonfiction in areas that interest them (e.g. instead of letting your child watch a TV show about fairies, magic, dragons, princesses, or sharks, find books on the subject.)   Ask the school librarian/ public library children's librarian/ children's teacher for help and suggestions. Get a couple of subscriptions to kids magazines in areas of interest, so your child gets mail addressed to him/her every month.  Create a family book club, where the entire family reads the same book and talks about it, or start a parent-child book club with your kids' friends.  Read to younger children, a chapter a night at bedtime, and take the time to have your children read to you.  It's also great to have an older sibiling practice by reading to a younger one.   And make importantly, make sure your children see you reading for pleasure-- parents have an enormous impact on their kids values.

I strongly suspect that kids who are great readers can even improve GBRS scores, because they can explore interests and share what they read with the class.  And demonstrated reading above grade level is one criterion on the GBRS form.

At back to school night for DS and DD, their AAP teachers said that the kids in the AAP center were not required to keep reading logs-- the problem was not getting the kids in AAP to read.  Instead, they had a hard time getting kids to put the books down during lesson time.

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Why the lecture?  How do you know the parents prepping are not parents that also already do all the things you suggest?  I doubt the kind of parent that lets their kids sit and watch TV all afternoon are also the parents wringing their hands over getting into AAP.  Just saying.  [/quote]

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