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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a first grade teacher at a school that has an AAP program.  The problem with the above poster is that they fail to see that reading words is not the only point of reading.  They have difficulty understanding how a child like that can read "at x level" but in testing doesn't test the way the parent thinks the child should.  Kids do not have the life experiences at a young age to be able to fully grasp certain concepts.  A few years ago my highest reading group read a story about Africa.  [b]No one in the group had the life experience in order to understand the author's intent because no one in the group had seen Africa, seen poverty, etc.  Could they all read the text?  Yes.  That was not sufficient though.[/b]

Parents come to me and explain that Sally is reading Harry Potter, as a reference as to where Sally should be placed.  Sally, however, has difficulty retelling (in a testing setting:  the setting of the story, the story in order, a lot of detail, using connecting words) a non-fiction story, or difficulty making inferences, or difficulty explaining the author's intent, or difficulty making connections, etc.

This isn't about jealousy.  It is clearly about touting her own kid's horn.  Now if the question was:  what was the highest level your child was reading in kindergarten and explain all the details you can surrounding it, the answer was appropriate.  (I will say that of all my years of teaching, there was one child in all my high groups who ever was truly, truly beyond her peers.  That isn't to say that many weren't bright and beyond the first grade level.  This one child, however, stuck out in language arts with an amazing ability, which was not just decoding words as nearly all of the top tier readers can do).[/quote]

This is the point of reading a book about Africa, no?  And, that was maybe the author's intent.  This is first grade.  I find it hard to believe that you teach first grade in fairfax public schools and "in all your years" you have only come across one child who could read beyond "just decoding words."  Methinks you have an axe to grind.  [/quote]

Besides your terrible grammar it is clear that you *still* have reading comprehension problems.  The teacher poster's intent in discussing the single gifted child was to say that while she has seen many in first grade that are advanced at decoding words (ie can read aloud all the words in a 6th grade level text), she has seen only 1 who could both decode and understand the words at a 6th grade level.  
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