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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]pearson has a link if you google it.  183 means they know how to read most of the words on the test I believe.  The first half is letter sounds and then the second half is words.[/quote]

Do you know if this is one of the tests that gets stopped at the first sign of trouble? If child had trouble with some letter names, do they continue on to reading words? If a kid knows how to read most K sight words but blunders on the names of the letters, does he even get to the word part of the test?

My kid "failed" to achieve the Fall benchmark, and it was explained to me that this is because he did not know the names for most of the letters. That makes sense, he was in a Montessori preK where they learn to sound the words. He reads and decodes with relative ease, and with only marginal support when he gets stuck on a letter like (q vs g). So I am a bit surprised. I just went in for a reading program at school, and frankly, I don;t see much of a difference between where my child is and where his peers are -- but he's stuck learning letters again when his peers are reading "real" books. He's pretty bummed, and I'm trying to understand.

teacher explained that research shows that not knowing the names of the letters in K is usually an indicator of trouble with learning ahead and a high drop-out rate. I'm appropriately freaked out, but come on! the kid *reads*! And he's rebelling against having to re-learn his letters when everyone else is doing interesting stuff. *That* can also lead to trouble later on!

We've been reading simple books with lots of sight words, and he's pretty comfortable reading that. Clifford, Complete Dick and Jane are bid favorites. Yes, we still have a lot of work ahead, but I'm struggling to understand the urgency in dropping any progress from where he's at and re-starting from scratch.

Better understanding the test would definitely help ME better help my child. Any insight?[/quote]

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