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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure about a "cap" as my dd is a couple a grades ahead and there are many others in a Farms school.  It's not a big deal if they work with the slower kids because the most relevant reading takes place at home.

Lastly, teachers can't waste time testing level upon level til infinity.[/quote]

I agree.  And, I don't really care about testing 'til infinity'.  But, [b]I do care that my kid's not getting ANY reading instruction at school[/b].  Simply because she's past the expected reading level for her grade.  WTF?  [/quote]

Your kid's not getting ANY reading instruction at school? What do they do with her during the Reading/Language Arts block?[/quote]

I'm the PP.  I'll respond to you and the other PP who asked.

I have a 3rd grader and a K.  I'll talk about my K student.

Her class has an hour and twenty minutes in the AM designated for Literacy Centers/Small Group Reading Instruction.  I guess the theory is that the teacher spends 20 minutes with 6 different reading groups?  Well, it doesn't work that way.

My kid is NOT a genius, but she's always liked to read.  She was assessed at Level 14.  There is one other boy in her reading group.  They have met not even met so far this month.  Last month, they met 3 times the whole month.  And, it's not just her reading group that doesn't meet.  The other 'advanced' reading group barely meets as well.

So, while the teacher works with the other reading groups, DD is supposed to be sitting quietly and reading to herself (which is fine, but I don't really consider that 'reading instruction') or they're given BS (IMO) worksheets to color/cut/paste.  Some of the kids do that, and some of them just play pretend in the corner or draw or whatever.

Yes, I've talked to the teacher about it.  I actually think she's a very good teacher!  She's doing the best she can with 21 other kids in the class.  It's her responsibility to get all the K students reading at Level 6 by the end of the year.  So, she has to spend more time with the kids who need help.  DD's teacher has given me things to work on with DD at home (and we do), and given me the list of Sight Words for Grades 1 and 2, etc.  We do that, and I volunteer every week in the classroom, but I stand by the fact that my kid isn't really getting 'reading instruction' at school.

I'd even rather they just had an aide come in and play games with the kids during that 80 minute period.  Anything would be an improvement over sitting around for that time every day!

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I'm this PP, and I'll add that if anyone has any suggestions on improving the situation for my DD, I'd be happy to hear them!  Like I said, she has a good teacher, and I think she'd be willing to implement something as long as it isn't disruptive to the other kids in the class.

I'm not sure what I could specifically ask, so any advice would be wonderful!  I'd just like the time my DD spends in school to be better spent, if at all possible. [/quote]

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