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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Once more:  parents think that because their three year old can sing the ABC song that he "knows" the alphabet[/b].[/quote]

This is frustrating to read.  It is entirely dismissive of OP and others who may have questions similar to hers.  There may be some parents who think their child knows the alphabet by singing the ABC song, and there are others who think their child knows the alphabet by picking out the correct letters, naming them, and saying their associated sounds.  Similarly, there may be some parents who think their kindergartner can read fluently but are actually not, and there are others who think their kindergartner is reading chapter books and retelling the story when asked.

Your response basically says that the Schools forum of DCUM is not a good place to ask questions and look for information, because posters will just ignore you and call you wrong.[/quote]

If you read OPs responses, she falls into the category of what the bolded post says above.  She gets a response that says, “just so you're aware, teachers do not use the reading levels that you'll find assessed on books or online. Teachers have tests they administer to children. Children pass the level or they don't. To pass the level, typical things children need to do are:

--pronunciation 
--inflection 
--doesn't lose place in text (and if does, can find place in text) 
--can retell accurately, without looking back, to include setting, characters, in order, specific details 
--can give the author's purpose 
--can do a text to text relation (how does this text relate to another text) 
--can relate the text to self (how does this text relate to the child) 
--Does the child use the characters' names or just pronouns 
--"uh" and any other words other than the text counts against the child during the assessment

The child also needs to pass BOTH the fiction and non-fiction levels to "pass" onto the next level. Non-fiction is obviously much more difficult.

So when parents say, "Sally is WAY beyond this level," often, Sally is often right on that level. The "easiest" part of reading can be decoding (are the words pronounced correctly) because, in large part, once a child knows how to read, she can read most things. If, however, that same child is unable to answer the required questions to pass the reading level, the fact that she could pick the same book up and read it aloud beautifully does not mean anything whatsoever.”

She responded by saying, “I spend more time with DD than the teacher. Why would you assume I don't know her reading level? I do. I don't need fancy tests to know.”  Now she also said that, “[u]just to prove the point at school she is testing for 2nd grade level.”  [/u]I believe that underlined part is a complete lie.  Why?  Because her first post is, “The teacher is not aware of my DD's reading level I'm bothered by the fact that DD's kindergarten teacher has been sending books for her to read at home and these books are way too easy for DD. I corrected the teacher and asked for higher level reading, but now it bothers me. Should she know the levels of her students?”  Clearly if the school tested her at a 2nd grade reading level, the teacher would know she was at a 2nd grade reading level, even if she was sending the “wrong” books home.  The mom is backpeddling now because she doesn’t “need a fancy test” to actually “know” what her child’s reading level is.  So this is why this post is spot on...she KNOWS her kid's reading level without "needing" this "fancy test" that schools throughout the nation feel are necessary to determine true reading level.

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