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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a high school English teacher, and I used to assume that I could assess my young child's reading level.  However, after my sister (who teaches second grade) actually showed me a pile of marked DRA assessment papers (the pages the teachers write on while/after administering the DRA test), as well as the accompanying copies of student-completed papers and the DRA books that matched each set of paperwork, it was clear that there is a lot more to assessing a young child's reading level than I had known.  I had NOT accurately assessed my own child's reading level.

There is much more to "reading level" than you realize, OP.  Yes, you spend more time with your child and read with her, and you are assuredly aware of her "level" in SOME components of literacy, but you aren't aware of all components of reading/literacy that the teacher must assess.

[b]My sister and her colleagues are forbidden to show parents the paperwork that was used in assessing the child's DRA[/b], but maybe your child's teacher can share?  (she will be reluctant if you have been combative or condescending in your attempts to "correct" her, though).

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why forbidden??  [/quote]

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