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Expert: Marsha Cunningham - 11/5/2009
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Are you familiar with the DRA assessment materials? My youngest daughter is in kinder and just loves to read and has since she was 4. She reads some easy chapter books and seems to comprehend well. She answers our questions fine. She reads her brother's level 18+ books fine. Today she was tested at school using the DRA system. I do not yet know the results as our conference is not scheduled for 2 more weeks. But I do know that my child read 3 books during testing, the only thing is the teacher started high and went lower with each book. So, I am assuming that means she did not pass the comprehension part on the first book and so the teacher went down a level. Obviously this happened twice because the last book she read was the lowest level of the 3. Is my assumtion likely correct? Or is there another reason the teacher would go backwards like that? All I can figure was that she kept moving to a lower book because the comprehension was off. My daughter said she had check marks above every word so we know she got that part right. Just curious.
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Hi Kellie,
No, I'm not familiar with DRA, but if your daughter is reading chapter books in Kinder I'd say that she's doing very will indeed.
I don't know why the teacher started where she did, except that since she knows what a good reader your daughter is she aimed according to her oral reading ability. The higher level books have more complex questions, inference, for example, where the answer must be inferred, as it is not actually stated in the text. You can teach her about this at home, as I don't believe that public or private schools would teach it until late 1st or 2nd grade.
I hope that this can help a little,
Sincerely,
Marsha Cunningham
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