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Posted: Nov 24 2008 at 5:10pm | IP Logged Quote JSchaaf
My middle daughter, age 8 is in 2nd grade at a Core Knowledge charter school. She just had a reading assessment done, and is reading at a 6.2 grade level. I knew she was an advanced reader, just not that advanced! I'm trying to find more challenging books for her to read independently, but all the upper elementary books I'm finding are too "mature" in their content and/or subject matter. Do you have any suggestions?
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Posted: Dec 15 2008 at 8:40pm | IP Logged Quote Mary Chris
Have you done the Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace? The first few would be perfect for her. Swallows and Amazon? Redwall?

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Posted: Dec 15 2008 at 11:47pm | IP Logged Quote SuzanneG
Jennifer~
Can you dip into all of the various family read-aloud lists, that are geared for the younger crowd? I'm thinking of the recent brain-storming that took place in this thread:

need read aloud suggestions (for 4-6 yo)

And, RIGHT NOW, she MUST read The Christmas Barn.....I just gushed about it here.

Will she read fairy tales on her own? There is usually pretty complicated sentence structure in them, increasing the reading level.

Heidi
Pollyanna
Swiss Family Robinson
The Railway Children
All-of-a-Kind Family
Caddie Woodlawn
Beverly Cleary's Books
Melissa Wiley's Martha/Charlotte books.

Is this what you're looking for? Or am I way off track?

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With Accelerated Reader (we're talking the computer test program, right?) non-fiction is usually rated higher than fiction stories. Marianna would read those for quick tests to rack up points and have a large fiction book going as well (like Harry Potter) for a huge sweep of points at the end of the point gathering period (quarterly, I think).

Definitely check with your individual school as they have to buy tests and if they don't have the test it can be really dissapointing to the kids, though we used to let them do a book report thing to rack up a few points on books without a test.

PS - all this is based on info several years old, I hope it helped!

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