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Hi all,

There is a long build up to my question...

I just started a job as reading coach. It is a new
position and it is also my first teaching position. I have
some education in teaching reading but no experience. I
work in a middle school, with students grades 5-8 . I just
started this job just before the Christmas break and so far
I have just gone through some test results for the 5th and
6th grades.

The most recent standardized test they have taken in the
NWEA so I started with those results and according to them
about one third of the kids in the 5th and 6th grade are
reading below grade level, some are even at beginner
reading level. So I was also given the results of their
GATES test from last year and the results were quite
different. For example one 6th grade student was at a 4th
grade level according to her resent NWEA but at a 10th
grade level on her GATES from last ...See More


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