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Friday, August 31, 2007
I have an advanced preschooler and a struggling kindergartener. How can I help them both read?
It sounds like you have two children with different approaches to reading. Whether or not you'd call it, 'formal,' it sounds like you've already exposed your son to reading fundamentals.
Posted by Anne-Evan Williams at 09:45 AM.
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Friday, August 24, 2007
My kindergartener can read Charlotte’s Web. Will DORA tell me her true reading level?
It's astounding that your daughter seems so advanced in reading for her age. If you know your daughter can comfortably read Charlotte's Web orally (i.e., generally misses less than 5-10 words on a page - varies depending on difficulty of the page), then you know that your daughter is able to decode a book with a reading level approximately between grades 4 to 6 (give or take a grade level depending on who you talk to). However, reading ability, whether it's measured by 'grade level' or some scaled score on standardized tests, is complicated...
Posted by Anne-Evan Williams at 11:30 AM.
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