I actually tried that this afternoon, in the car. Told him that grownups didn't usually talk about popcorn words, once they learned how to read most words, but did he want to talk about whether a word was a noun, which was a naming word? He seemed pretty interested.
As far as reading level, they've been sending him home with "D" books, which is the most advanced they have in the classroom. The teacher tested him on them and supposedly he decoded them perfectly, but could not report the content well. (Of course, the problem is not that his comprehension is low, but that his attention is, but from their POV they feel he hasn't mastered them.) I've gotten them to at least send home non-fiction so there's content we can talk about even if the reading level is low. And he's taking books closer to his challenge reading level out of the library -- Rainbow Fairies and Geronimo Stilton, I think?
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Date: 2008-12-09 04:03 am (UTC)As far as reading level, they've been sending him home with "D" books, which is the most advanced they have in the classroom. The teacher tested him on them and supposedly he decoded them perfectly, but could not report the content well. (Of course, the problem is not that his comprehension is low, but that his attention is, but from their POV they feel he hasn't mastered them.) I've gotten them to at least send home non-fiction so there's content we can talk about even if the reading level is low. And he's taking books closer to his challenge reading level out of the library -- Rainbow Fairies and Geronimo Stilton, I think?