Thanks, Polarbear.
I agree that it is developmental, but apparently, these things are a thorn in her teacher's side and do affect grading. They do not have an gifted program for this year, but have been giving her out of grade work, and would expect her to receive greater enrichment next year.
They use her ability to remember to go to an enrichment folder on her own after doing grade level work, then extra work, then the grade up work, to judge whether she "needs" enrichment" instead of seeing that at that point she is sick of worksheets. They also enjoy pointing out errors that I mentioned (an uppercase letter in the middle of a sentence, a skipped problem, forgetting to put a name on a paper) against her and seem to relish pointing these things out even though from day one I said executive functioning skills were a work in progress and we have outside testing showing very high cognitive skills (third grade level in preschool).
She is flawless on all reading tests and her reading is so out there that at this point they said even if she "bombed" the test they just took, she would be in their gifted program for reading. Her writing in terms of plot and vocabulary is quite extraordinaty, but as I said, she sometimes uses the wrong case or forgets punctuation and this causes her to be graded "at grade level" even though she writes whole books with vocabulary light years ahead while some kids in her class barely put together a sentence. Their entire system is frustrating to me.
