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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are we talking about summer reading?

As a teacher, I can tell you that summer reading needs to be at a significantly lower level than school year reading for the same text.  School year reading should be, for most kids, something that pushes their skills a little or a lot.  It should be something where a kid needs some structure from the teacher to understand.  Summer reading should be a few levels down from that, something at kids' independent reading level, similar to what they'd read for pleasure.  It should be something that most of the kids can get a lot of meaning from 100% on their own, that is used to keep up the habit of reading, and to serve as the basis of conversations and activities that build momentum at the very start of the year while the teacher builds the expectations, structures and routines that will help them tackle more challenging work.

I get that it's a little frustrating that a kid has already read the book, but standardizing reading lists bring up a different set of issues.  If we want teachers to able to look at their class and choose titles that resonate then we can't also be upset that two teachers in different schools chose the same title.  What I don't get is being upset that the summer reading before 9th grade includes a text that in on a middle school level.[/quote]

That’s because you don’t understand the underlying real reason.  It’s obvious that it was not a DCPS middle school that required it.  But it was a school that obviously had higher standards for its students and likely had a much higher performing student body overall.

OP is facing the new reality of what to expect in DCPS and we all know it’s low standards and expectations.  [/quote]

You are wrong. And you sound like you probably have very little kids.[/quote]

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