Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Learning Environments How is reading level tested in schools?

Just curious about the mechanics of this. DD is at a new school where I think they will make a good effort to get her reading books on the right level. However, she has two tendencies that I wonder about in terms of how they affect reading level determination: 1) she sometimes skips or changes small and unimportant words, though not in any way that affects the sense of the text, and 2)she mispronounces difficult words sometimes, even when she knows what they mean. So let's says she reads a page of a text and skips two words and mispronounces two others--is the text then considered too hard? Do they ask comprehension questions? Is it all scored strictly by the rules or is there wiggle room?