At least last year in second grade my DD was actually in an ability group for reading. They read chapter books with the teacher. This year she is in the gifted "cluster group". I had high hopes that they would work on chapter books more at her level. But it is worse this year. The entire third grade class sits on the carpet in their assigned spots and watches the "Journeys" curriculum on the promethean board. Then they all do the same third grade level multiple choice reading comprehension worksheets. The questions are idiotic or poorly worded and DD over-analyzes them and usually gets some questions wrong. One of the moms in the class grades all the papers and says that most kids get most of the questions wrong. What the heck is going on?
