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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would someone help me? I have an older kid that is "twice exceptional" (love the euphemism for gifted and disabled) so I was very relieved when the youngest started reading well, with no problems unlike the first one. She is in first grade and loves to read, she just finished the hobbit (reading haltingly) and the lion, the witch and the wardrobe (reading fluently). She can verbally summarize the stories. Now her DRA come from school, she scored a 10, low for her grade. Did her teacher uncover the tip of a disability iceberg or is someone tripping here? What does the dra test besides reading and understanding the story?[/quote]

I am going to guess it will have to do with much more than reading the words.  That is just the decoding part of it.  I suspect the child had difficulty retelling what was read.  Or that the child could retell part of the test (fiction) but not the other part (non fiction).  Perhaps she could not make connections (to self and the world), etc.  I am betting that the concern is not that she can't read the words, but that she can't read to pass the required testing which is so much more than simple decoding.[/quote]

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