Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment WISC-IV and WAIT-II Test Results

Thanks everyone for the replies. I am anxiously awaiting the results of this years achievement test...I believe they did the WAIT-II again. We meet for the results Tuesday morning. As long as all goes well...which just based on what she saw last year she didn't think would be an issue, he will be doing a full grade acceleration to 5th. Although I KNOW he can handle the Pre-Algebra and hope that we can get high enough results on an algebra readiness test to convince the school to let him do 2 grade level skip in Math. i think this might be where things get a little more sticky.

Oh yeah I forgot to say that this district does not have a history of grade acceleration. They have a TAG program but I feel like it is not worthwile for DS to do so we have decided not to join that but other than that the district doesn't really do grade or subject accelerations. Hopefully we won't run into too many issues with it.

Iucounu: I tend to approach things I don't know about by reasearching and am pretty matter of fact about things because I know I need to learn everything I can to be as effective as I can be...so because of that only a few things through all of this have given me pause and sightly taken my breath away...this comment is one of the few.

We have not noticed any ADD tendencies. Although his writing is his weakest area. He has always hated writing and tries to do as little as possible...shortening anything he can. Spelling is also a low area for him.

He was in a writing class for our co-op this year. I placed him in the 4th/5th grade class. They said after working on a few things with him at the begining he was pretty on par with a lot of the kids in the class. Maybe a little lower on spelling but writing was on par.

These are definately the 2 areas we are most concerned with.

edited to add* I have been impressed this year as he was writing a story (on going each day I have him type whatever he wants for 30 mins) he used a lot of conversation between characters and using a lot of discriptive words...it was actually pretty good.

this made me smile. Enjoy the ride.

Nevermind. dirty delete.

Amber

No, not at all! I was trying to articulate what I meant, and it came across to me as argumentative, and I couldn't fix it to not sound that way. LOL.


You know, the whole tone online thing.

Kcab: Thanks for the insight. We will be doing an algebra readiness test next...we just wanted to gt through this year WAIT-II scores first. School psych is behind us in the skip to 5th. So now onto the other test and then a meeting with a few key players in the district.

As far as the TAG program I am conifident about our TAG program and know the ins and outs of it. It really isn't any thing more than some extra projects. That and those kids are clustered together in their classes which DS would be clustered with them regardless....As much as possible since he might do pre-algebra.