Does your daughter think she understands better when she reads out loud or when she reads silently?
She is pretty clear that her understanding is better when she is reading silently. The impression I got was that both her 2nd and 3rd grade teachers administered the DRA by having her read aloud to them. At the end of 2nd, her teacher said that her reading on the DRA tested at mid-4th grade. At the end of 3rd, that teacher said that her DRA came out at end of 3rd (exactly at proficient for that point in the year, but not at all advanced).
Finally, there is some unavoidable subjectivity in the administration of these tests. In my school we frequently end up consulting with one another when deciding whether or not to accept an answer or not.
I wonder on this. Dd's 3rd grade teacher was very clearly not impressed with dd and felt her to be of average intelligence. She told me as much repeatedly (and in front of dd) and even went so far as to imply that my dh was unintelligent and that explained why dd9 wasn't as bright as me or dd11. I was chewed out in front of dd early in the year and told that I was the source of all of her problems when I questioned why her MAPS scores had gone from the 89th and 94th at the end of 2nd (reading and math) to the 50s for both at the start of 3rd.
FWIW, just to clarify, dd was a 4th grader last year and last year was a better year. She was in GT reading daily and a somewhat accelerated math class (not subject acceleration). It went better, but the reading frustrations remain and I still don't feel like she is performing as well as her IQ scores would indicate she should (unless IQ doesn't predict achievement as well as I had thought).
