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I have a student who tested well on the Star test, scoring 5.8 at the beginning of fourth grade. His test results from third grade were also good. He has failed more tests than he has passed this year on books that are within his reading range. I'm not sure if he's just reading too fast, or what the problem is. Any suggestions about how to help him would be appreciated.
5th How long does he take to read a book? He could be forgetting parts of it. Maybe he should take chapter-by-chapter notes as he is reading, and perhaps you could allow him to have his notes with him while he takes the test. last year, I had a kid with an astonishingly low "working memory" score after he was referred ....it was an "Aha" moment! On 10/...See More
Oct 4, 2009
Tyler First, I'd retest him on Star. Perhaps he just got lucky? Otherwise, a high test score with a low AR setup could be that he understands question relationships in multiple choice settings, but perhaps his reading level ability is vastly slower when recognizing words. So, he may read a line in Star well, but that is 1 sentence. When a page is filled ...See More
Oct 7, 2009
HDD On 10/04/09, 4th wrote: > I have a student who tested well on the Star test, scoring > 5.8 at the beginning of fourth grade. His test results > from third grade were also good. He has failed more tests > than he has passed this year on books that are within his > reading range. I'm not sure if he's just reading too fast, > or what...See More
Oct 7, 2009


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