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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"We do it every day at the elementary level using guided math and guided reading. Online programs, such as i-Ready and Lexia are tailored to the individual learner. Other subjects, such as social studies and science, are taught at grade level. It helps to have a large classroom library with text levels ranging from primary to high school. Reading aloud while students follow along an above-level text is another strategy for challenging high achievers while building vocabulary and background knowledge of students who are below level."

NO, YOU DON'T. Maybe you think you do, or pretend to, but you don't. Trust me, as the parent of a gifted child who, even at one of the highest performing schools in this city, has been bored and unhappy at school for most of the last 5 years, you don't differentiate beyond slightly below and slightly above grade level. That's doable. But differentiating plus or minus 2 grades levels? Not possible. Ask any special ed or gifted ed teacher. [/quote]

Wow. You must have some incredible para-normal abilities to know with such certainty what goes on in my classroom.

You are truly gifted.  Especially when you use upper-case.[/quote]

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