I wouldn't worry at this point about your daughter having uneven reading achievement scores. The grade equivalent scores tell you, for example, that an eighth grader taking this first grade test would be expected to get all of the reading comprehension questions right, as your daughter did. That doesn't necessarily mean that she should be reading eighth grade books, although that is certainly a possibility. To really find that out, she'd need to take an eighth grade test, not a first grade one.
Before you panic, remember that she got better than 90% of the questions correct on every section. The two sections where she actually missed a few questions involve knowledge of phonics rules and vocabulary, and she still scored above grade level and at the high side of average - she scored as well or better than 57% of other first graders on word reading, her "weakest" area. These missed questions could be because she just hadn't been exposed to the rules or vocabulary being tested, or she could have been tired, or hungry, or distracted, or had some other problem (boredom, confusion from the illustrations, etc.) with the testing during those sections. If you want to bring her "word reading" and "sentence reading" skills up, my advice would be to continue to read aloud together and point out the less obvious phonics rules as you encounter words that use them, and make sure your daughter has access to a dictionary and a thesaurus and knows how to use them.
Gifted kids are often "out of the box" thinkers. I'm not certain that this is something to try to "correct", unless they are making real errors in logic and reasoning, in which case showing them where the breakdown in their logic is can be helpful.
Last edited by aculady; 07/01/11 11:40 PM. Reason: clarity
