If Andrew tries to pick a challenging book, she tells him no, because "that book is too hard for you."
Ah, yes. At our school, kindergartners are required to pick kindergarten books, which are marked with a big K sticker on the spine, and only allowed one book per week.
First graders are required to pick "blue dot" books, which are AR levels 1.0 to 1.9, and have a blue dot on the spine. One day, DD came home with
Harp Seals , a book with a dot that had a slightly different shade of blue. It took her a week to work her way through it, and it's known as "that horrible seal book" in our house - but she read it, and mostly understood it, and was hugely proud of herself for having stuck with it.
In third, the kids start off with 2nd or 3rd grade books, and after reading 5 in a row of 3rd, can get 4th. After 5 in a row of 4th, they can get 5th. DD was the first in her class to get to 4th, but apparently didn't realize that "5 in a row" meant "without an intervening book of a different level, and without taking advantage of the opportunity to skip an AR quiz." So she'd read 4 4th grade books, then accidentally get the next book in the series without realizing it was 3rd or 5th, and have to restart her count. She's running out of age-appropriate and interesting-to-her 4th grade books, and has been waiting to test on her 4th-in-a-row for nearly a week (AR website has been down), so I hope she gets over the hurdle soon.
On the plus side, the couple of times she's accidentally gotten a 5th grade book, she's been allowed to read and test on it. She's just a rule-follower, so is unwilling to "forget" on purpose.
