My son's best friend is a 6 year old girl in his class. My son is very advanced and got placed in a reading group all by himself because there were no others at his level. The girl, his friend, who is probably more advanced than him in my opinion was placed in a very low level reading group. When the parents told the teacher that she was reading Geronimo Stilton books at 5 years old, the teacher was very surprised. This girl is very quiet and is not forthcoming or wants to speak out - she is just a very quiet and thoughtful little girl. The teacher said that she does a periodic assessment of kids to place them in groups for reading - and the girl in question was not answering anything when the assessment was happening - because she was not the kind of kid who would speak out in a crowd. So, the teacher said that because of the lack of any other information regarding her comprehension abilities, she placed her in a low level group.
So, please check if your daughter is answering the teacher when the comprehension questions are asked. Let her also know that it is important to answer those questions to the fullest of her abilities. I believe that your daughter is showing her true comprehension abilities in the MAP test and hiding it when there is an oral comprehension test.
Ask the teacher to retest your child - in support of your request, make her work on a comprehension exercise at home on a popular book at your child's real level and take it to the teacher as proof.
Good luck.
Last edited by ashley; 11/18/13 10:06 AM.
