Nancy- believe it or not, I only had one or two kids who complained about reading each day. Of the other 12, most raced to see who could get to the table to be in first group. Unfortunately, DIBELS is considered very important in my district. I personally think the whole program is flawed simply because of the leveling of the passages. This means that I am held accountable for all the benchmarking and progress monitoring that goes with the program. Which in turn means that I do what it takes to help them get to where the district expects them to be. I teach 3rd grade, which to me is an important year. The next year I send them up where they will be expected to read more from text books for information so I try to do as much as I can to get them ready. I agree that it's ridiculous to expect all kids to be at the same level at the same time even if they are the same age. No one develops at the same level as everyone else. That's why I am just as excited about the progress that those kids made who still remained in the lowest level on the assessment as I was about those who made it into the highest level. They made progress and for those particular kids, that was a big accomplishment. Cheryle
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