At one point in elementary I was given a separate room with a camera setup and instructed on how to make a stop-action animated movie about a foreign country I was studying. That was empowering and absorbing. And fun.

I don't know what to do about advanced readers in elementary; OTOH there is a fraction of the reading instruction (things like identifying a "theme," metaphor, etc.) they can benefit from; OTOH so much of what's on offer is a shoe on the wrong foot, regardless of grade level. We will face this again this year with our younger child. Getting anyone to see that it's a problem will be a challenge. I cannot imagine what accommodation would improve things, really.

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