What we discovered was that there is a lot more to doing a language arts class than just reading level. With that two-year subject acceleration, ds was expected to do a lot more critical reading (something he'd never had experience with) and more writing. Plot, character development, predictions. All of these skills need to be taught, and my ds did have a "catch up period" going from the end of K to beginning third grade in reading, even though he'd started K reading around that level. Don't get me wrong -- he's well placed at this level. He just needs to put in a bit of effort, which is exactly what we wanted!
Just keep in mind that there's a lot more to "reading" than just the reading.
Hopefully I don't sound contradictory here, but yes, this is why even though I think they don't have DS assessed correctly, I am okay with him not being in the highest reading group. For this year if our son needs to work on communicating that (via writing) it's okay.
At home for pleasure reading, he reads at a much high level.
Not to get off topic from the original post, but just as a "here is what we are doing" comment.
JB
