No, Dottie, he is exceedingly honest. In fact, he told me last night something along the lines of you see, Mommy, I'm not telling you I'm not reading just to get out of reading at home - I really don't have to read at school. Absolutely shocking. He had more reading at school in kindergarten. He has 20 minutes of reading homework a night - but they don't care who reads to whom. And he tells me in guided reading he's in a group that only reads 4 and 5 letter words - he's so glad he's not in the group that reads those long words - they're so hard! Meanwhile, when he agrees to read at home, he chooses to read passages from adult level science books where he has to sound out long scientific words (or maybe, he just knows the words from context? It's certainly possible for him.) Yikes, is all I can say.
btw, Dottie, I've read so many old posts about the scores that are inflated for young children. Are they the verbal on WISC-IV and the oral language on the WIAT? Those are his stengths (although if you spoke to him, I'd think you'd find them accurate). Still trying to get this application out by Monday to meet the December deadline. Thanks, everyone, for the responses.
