Hi all--
I have WJ-Cog and WJ III scores for my just turned 7 year old. She's entering 2nd grade in a school that has no gifted ID or support whatsoever. I'm just wondering if a few people could chime in and help me put these scores into perspective. I'm totally thinking myself into circles.
I'm not sure how much I should be pushing against admin or advocating for her. I'm sad after last year--her teacher was really nice, and we met several times, but she wasn't able or willing to differentiate for her. She was in the "highest" reading group--the girls who are reading Junie B Jones books, but DD reads a Junie B Jones book in about 30-45 minutes and is currently reading the first Harry Potter--and the teacher insisted that there are several kids in her grade that are of similar ability. We met several times and the teacher claimed to have spoken to the child study team. They can't do subject advancement for scheduling reasons, allegedly, and teacher argued "Well, I'm still going to have her doing phonics because she'll need it at some point."
I don't know if I should bring up grade level acceleration or not, and I don't even know if her scores merit it. She's already started complaining about going back to school in the fall. She doesn't like math too much, and the rest is "it's aaaaalllll phonics, Mom." She's a very sensitive kid who dwells on the negative, so she doesn't think about the good times she has in school like in art or music or with her friends.
I just don't know what's true/real and what I should push for in terms of placement, etc.
Her Woodcock Johnson Cognitive (from last summer) score and percentile:
GIA 152 >99.9
Verbal Ability 138 99
Thinking Ability 168 >99.9
Cog Efficiency 118 89
Phonemic Awareness 175 >99.9
Working Memory 125 95
Verbal Comp 138
Visual-Auditory 138
Spatial 116
Sound blending 187
Concept formation 155
Visual Matching 116
Numbers reversed 113
Incomplete Words 141
Auditory Working Memory 127
Vis-Aud Delayed 135
Her WJ-III from a few days ago (haven't gotten full report yet) score and grade equivalent:
BRIEF ACHIEVEMENT - 139 (137-142) 4.4
BROAD READING - 131 (129-133) 5.0
BROAD MATH - 126 (121-131) 2.8
BROAD WRITTEN LANG -129 (126-132) 3.8
BRIEF READING - 130 (128-132) 4.7
BASIC READING SKILLS - 128 (127-130) 4.9
BRIEF MATH - 132 (126-137) 3.1
MATH CALC SKILLS - 113 (106-119) 2.2
BRIEF WRITING - 128 (125-131) 4.4
WRITTEN EXPRESSION - 121 (117-125) 3.2
ACADEMIC SKILLS - 135 (133-137) 4.0
ACADEMIC FLUENCY - 132 (127-137) 3.3
ACADEMIC APPS - 128 (125-131) 3.7
