Hello to all and thank you again for taking the time to reply! mich, you mentioned a few things that I'm just not sure about..."Access and take meaning from written material" I understand that this means reading comprehension and being able to read and then write down what he has read??? On the WIAT he reached the ceiling on reading comp and on the EXPLORE as a 5th grader, he scored 85% better than 8th graders in reading and science. He is able to read or listen to something and write beautiful essays with full comprehension. When he was stuck in his 5th grade class with reading, he would always score 100% in comprehension. Someone had mentioned earlier "difficulty in reading shorter passages, directions..." I see no problem with that. One thing he cannot do when he's writing, is spell everything correctly but it's not a complete disaster. You can certainly figure it out and his handwriting is gorgeous. If his comprehension is so high, why would he meed audio books or an electronic reader for all written material? He reads high-level (with comprehension)for pleasure constantly. With the pseudoword decoding....He reads so much that I'm sure he has just memorized the words. In the younger years, I remember him scoring always high in phonics. I don't understand going into remeidal reading to learn how to deocde nonsense words. I guess I just don't understand the sense in remeidal reading when he can already "see" and understand the meaning of higher level words. With his ENFP personality, I think he would literally go bonkers if he had to go backward in remedial reading when he is so used to reading and comprehending college-level books. I am clearly not an expert here, so am I missing something? Please help me understand
You did mention a computer with spell check...Now that would be fabulous since his spelling is below average. His depth of thinking is incredible but certainly does not match his spelling or sentence structure. Is that common to request a personal laptop computer in the classroom for written activities? Wow if so, I would be all over that!!! Since he scored below average in spelling, would that be reasonable to ask for that? I just want to be sure that this meeting is focused on his acceleration not on him being potentially LD, dyslexic, or whatever. To me that's a seperate topic to be discussed at a later time. What he needs now, is acceleration to match his level of thinking and to keep his love of learning fueling
