Love this post! I was an avid reader from the start - I have a knack for staying up all night to complete a book that I love - and I remember all through Highschool when we had our list of 8 summer reading books...I had the books all read by the 2 week after summer started and many I would read and re-read because I just enjoy reading.....
Seablue what is strange is that we just heard that exact same quote by my DS6's elementary school reading specialist just lasy week. He is homeschooled, but goes in for speech and OT at the local public school...I have been having a really difficult time figuring out my son's reading level because he prefers to read for information instead of pleasure and it would just be nice to know so that i can help pick books out at the library or help him out of he's got something that is a little over his head. The reading resource teacher helped me last week and she determined he is reading at a 5-6th grade level (5th independ., 6th with some help with vocab)....I told her that is why I have resorted to homeschooling...and asked just what would you do exactly with this kindergartner that is reading on this level- how would you help differentiate instruction for him when others are just learning their alphabet letters and she came back with -all kids will even out in reading by 3rd grade. Which didn't answer my question and made me that much happier that we are homeschooling him!
