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8 weeks on the same novel #127841 04/20/12 05:48 AM
Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 67 H happyreader OP Member
OP happyreader Member H Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 67	OK . . . this post doesn't require a reply. I just need a place to put this out into the universe. . . DD9 who is very frustrated with her language arts is in the "top" reading group. They have spent the last EIGHT weeks reading one novel and they still haven't finished it! Eight weeks. Eight weeks on a book that she read more than a year ago on her own and finished in a couple of hours. 140 pages with pictures. They are giving her extensions and to be fair they don't work on it every day, but still . . . EIGHT weeks. Three more chapters to go! Shudder . . . Band head against wall . . . repeat.

Re: 8 weeks on the same novel happyreader #127843 04/20/12 06:03 AM
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bzylzy Member B Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 416	well if it makes you feel any better, my DD8 in "top" group has been on the same novel since Sept. ?

Re: 8 weeks on the same novel happyreader #127844 04/20/12 06:04 AM
Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,457 Iucounu Member
Iucounu Member Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,457	I know how you feel. DS6 is apparently in the top reading group in second grade, and they've spent all year on "The Enormous Egg", not exactly the densest tome ever written. Striving to increase my rate of flow, and fight forum gloopiness.

Re: 8 weeks on the same novel happyreader #127846 04/20/12 06:14 AM
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Austin Member Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,840 North Texas	Hmm, looks like a fun book! Might take Mr W three hours in one setting, but he would certainly be done in two days with all the other things he is into.

Re: 8 weeks on the same novel happyreader #127851 04/20/12 06:36 AM
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epoh Member Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 954 N. Texas	LoL. Sounds a bit like my son's classroom. The teacher has been reading Hugo to them... a big novel to be sure, but I think they've been doing this one book all school year! Apparently DS thought it was interesting, so he borrowed the book from her a couple of times during free reading and finished the whole thing back in like Nov. Thankfully he still enjoys being read to and will sit for reading time. ~amy

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