Anonymous wrote:PP, what is BCR?

I am the parent of a rising 3rd grader. To the OP, your child will be grouped with kids reading similarly in 2nd grade and will be assessed through MCLASS each quarter (as he likely was this past year). Groupings may change based on each MCLASS assessment based on both written and oral comprehension. (For the first quarter, we got a "reading is (X) for oral comprehension, but (X-1) for written." Can't remember the letters, but written is the ultmate "level" assigned.)

As others have said, up until 3rd grade, everything is "learning to read." But beginning in 3rd grade, it becomes more "reading to learn."

Level P is fantastic for the end of the year for 1st grade. Feel proud of your child! But I do expect it will even out over time. Reading levels do go much beyond P.

You should feel confident that your child will be grouped with other children reading above grade level next year.

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Anonymous wrote:New curriculum is putting more emphasis on writing. Did find with my now incoming 3rd grader that his reading was assessed far less in 2nd grade. (He was in a similar situation to your child, OP). Report card reading levels didn't change over several quarters during his 2nd grade school year. Final report card placed him at a level W. So, we've had a different experience than other posters about the level stagnating. Writing is supposed to be part of the assessment at all grades.

Here's the reading targets chart from MCPS: http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/curriculum/english/elementary/ReadingTargets-KthruGrade5.pdf

Questions you should ask school are whether they are giving your child William & Mary reading curriculum. This is a curriculum that is supposed to be implemented for high-level readers that encourages/teaches critical thinking. Also, would be good for your own piece of mind to know that they have an appropriate reading group of multiple children at same level as yours. Without that, it's unlikely that your child will get appropriate resources that teach him. I did experience this year a situation in which my child told me that he rarely had reading group and was just told to read whatever he wanted on his own.Am hoping 3rd grade will be better...

This was our experience exactly. Our DC just completed 3rd grade and will be attending a HGC program next year. We found that the home school was spreading the kids who had the highest reading levels among the various 3rd grade classes, so that there really wasn't an adequate peer group in any one class. Our child would go for weeks without reading group.

I know that this varies by school. Our elementary school gathered a group of kids with high reading levels in the same class so they could have a cohort with similar skills for a reading group. Next year several of those kids will be heading off to a HGC. So the school definitely has leeway in grouping, and you can advocate for grouping them with peers of a similar level.