Thanks for responding Dottie! To answer your questions...
It is funny that Quantitative is higher for her, because I actually see her as more verbal. But, this is coming from someone who is a math geek (and future high school math teacher) but who did lousy on the verbal part of the SAT.
I don't have them in front of me, but I think all three sections on the verbal part of the WISC were 13s. I don't think she was given the other two portions of the WISC.
She is definitely very shy and reserved. I was wondering if that might have something to do with it. Maybe we should think about a private testing service next year?
Our school gives the CogAT to the whole first grade and uses it to screen. However, you only need a 125 on it to get bumped into the next level of testing, then you have to do well enough on the ITBS and teacher evals, THEN you go to WISC. She did so much better than the 125 (I think that's only about 90th percentile or even less, and she was above the 99th) that I kind of thought that it was a given she was going to get in. I am gifted myself and I see so much of myself in her...
I guess what I don't get is, how is this test administered? I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall to see what was going on with her. That one low score kind of messed the whole thing up - did she not understand the directions for that section or something?
As far as reading goes, she likes the typical stuff like Magic Treehouse, but she thinks it's really easy. She'll sit down and read a whole book in one sitting. I probably need to get to the bookstore and get her some better stuff. I just know from comparing her to my older daughter (who is only 20 months older) that she is so much more fluent. It was so frustrating when my older daughter was trying to read and her little sister could do it before her. And just as a comparison, my older daughter scored 123 on the CogAT, so almost qualified for testing, and is tracked into the advanced math class as well.
