You are very welcome. Hope you stick around. This is THE place for parents to learn about gifted kids.
Free and accessible to all.
Here's an old thread on
lexile levels. In the Recommended Resources forum, the
list of books for ages 9-12 may be of interest.
But is this gifted or just bright.
Difficult to know without IQ testing, and in many ways it does not matter, as long as
the child's needs are being met. This would include not only academic growth and achievement, but also having
academic/intellectual peers, and developing
study skills, etc. Did the school conduct IQ testing as part of the qualification for their gifted program? If so, parents are entitled to a copy of the results.
Some say the "optimal" IQ is 120-125. Higher IQ than that (gifted 132+) is more rare (2% of the population). The higher one's IQ, the more rare in the population... the less familiar a school may be with these kiddos... and the more difficult it may be to find academic/intellectual peers.
to make sure I push for what they need appropriately
The
advocacy thread may be of interest... start reading now as there is a LOT of information to cover.
Too often parents wait until they are in the midst of a crisis and a meeting has been scheduled...
