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Is it realistic to believe that every first grader can and should be at a DRA level 16 by the end of the year? I teach in an urban school district in a school with almost 100 percent of the students receiving free breakfast and lunch. I have students who struggle with paying attention, are often tarcy, absent, moving in and out of schools, and even those is speech and/or classified as LD are expected to be at benchmark by the end of the year. To me this is unrealistic. All my students are making progress. Some more than others. Some have mastered all 220 DOLCH words and are workin on the 95 Nouns/DOLCH phrases and were at benchmark in January. Others were not at benchmark but had made progress since the fall. Another student just moved in and is clearly far behind. I am wondering what other districts expect?
Jessie We were expected to have all demonstrate a reading fluency rate of 63 works per minute by the end of the year. This was a cold reading. I thought it was very unfair for the students and the teachers.

On 4/13/13, :( wrote: > Is it realistic to believe that every first grader can and > should be at a DRA level 16 by the end of the year...See More
Apr 24, 2013


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