@ Epoh - that makes so much sense! thank you - I was starting to doubt...
@CAmom - hahaha that is brilliant! I am so going to do that with him... I am usually against "coaching" of any type but in this instance I feel I have to do something before he hates everything to do with school
@Val - that's what we did yesterday, he took his own book in and even read it for her. She administered the test at a higher level too. She didn't tell me his new results, only carefully stated that they are keeping him on level 8 for now.
@Agent99 - we are not allowed to be there for in-class assessments at all. He is one of three in his K class reading (the other two are on lower levels still and initially the teacher wanted to let Aiden wait until the other two catch up to him for group reading!). So the teacher sits with him, reads his old reader and then gives him the new one to take home. He brings it home, reads it to me once - he may stumble over one or two new words occasionally, and then that's that. We wait an entire week for the next reading time slot.
