Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Age or Ability Specific Forums Elementary School What is first grade like these days?

Here's another data point. In my son's 1st grade class, there was an extremely wide spectrum of reading abilities. The school was about 40% FRL and in his class of 24 it ranged from level C readers who were still working on simple CVC and four letter word phonics to advanced chapter book readers. They used Reader's Workshop which basically meant most of reading was done with individually leveled books and with pairs of roughly similar children. Bottom line, your experience is going to really depend a lot on the curriculum in use and the teacher.