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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My favorite LC story is the year my kid jumped from level E to level M in reading in a month. Why? The story she was tested on for E was about baseball and she couldn’t guess what some of the words were, which was supposed to be easy… Only we’d just moved to the country and she’d literally never heard of baseball, so had zero framework to even sound out from. (Like “pitcher” and “base” and “diamond” were all at Level E because you could guess from the first letter and the picture if you’d ever heard these words… but actually pitcher is not on the same level as dog  as LC claimed (cvc and common/easy to depict words were the same) and is very hard for a kid to figure out if she’s never heard the word and doesn’t even recognize the sport. Then suddenly a different teacher declared her at Level M because she could read a Level M book about a topic she was familiar with (so where the first letter and guess method worked). Absolute lunacy.[/quote]

PP.  This is what I meant by having issues with doing the book leveling for guided reading.  For somebody who was a strong early reader, the book leveling seemed unintuitive. Ideally, students could choose a harder book that looked interesting and just ask for a little help or even try using a kid's dictionary or Google.  But they were supposed to stick in their level range for best results.  There was no plan for the kids that had a big step-up in ability other than I guess they could read from any level if they had topped out.[/quote]

Seems like the biggest issue with guided reading is that there were so many variations of implementation.  My kids were always allowed to read what they wanted to in school.  The larger issue was getting developmentally appropriate books on her reading level as many were aimed for upper elementary, not first graders. [/quote]

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