Reading comprehension help from the teacher

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1. Aurelia

   September 7th, 2006 at 8:35 pm

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   WOW, I am so happy that you are pleased with the program. I have a 2nd, 10th and a Junior in college and I have to say that I have been very lucky in that I have loved all of their teachers. Assessing them early in the year for reading is GREAT and it sounds like your daughter is a wonderful reader. So, do they assign her different work geared towards the 5th grade level? Sorry for all of the questions, i just love it when I hear children excel.

   Aurelia

2. lisaroberson

   September 11th, 2006 at 10:41 pm

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   Thank you, Aurelia - for your comments! Sorry for my delay in responding!

   What they do with the assessments is assign each child a ‘zone’ - for instance, my daughter’s is something like 4.2-5.9, which means 4th grade, 2nd month to fifth grade, ninth month.

   The library - I haven’t seen it yet, but, it sounds neat - is set up with a majority of the books not being in the Dewey Decimal System - but by these grade level assessment numbers. So the children are expected to pick out books that are in their own personal ‘zone’.

   The whole class uses the same reading book, so there are some short stories that are read by all.

   Now wait - I seem to remember in elementary school, we had several different reading books per grade level, according to different levels.

   So perhaps, I am wrong on the reading book thing, but, I think I’m not, which is odd.

   I plan to do more research on this very interesting program and will report back on the Bookworm Broadcast as I gather more information.

   Thank you again, Aurelia, for visiting and for your comments and great question!