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[Guest Willma]

I just got the results from my 7 yr old first standardized testing. We are currently going thru what would be considered 2nd grade. His testing placed him at 4 th grade for spelling and 6th grade for general knowledge and 8 th grade for reading recognition and comprehension. I'm kind of blown away, I knew he was getting what we were doing but I didn't think he "got it" that much. It explains some of the boredom and the difficulty keeping him in age appropriate reading that is still challenging. Any ideas to fend off boredom, any book suggestions?

[Donna]

I do not know what type of testing you had done but for most standardized tests, the results indicate how a child of a certain age would perform on that 2nd grade test. So if you child scored 4th grade in spelling it would indicate that the average 4th grader would have achieved the same score on that 2nd grade test. It does not indicate that the child is ready or competent in 4th grade work...if that makes any sense.

 

Giving your child a standardized test for a higher grade level in which he scores in the 50% percentile will tell you where he is achievement-wise.

 

That being said, you have a very bright child and if he is not being challenged in the work he is doing, then your job will be to find a level that challenges him appropriately.

[Guest Willma]

We used the Peabody test so it is not grade specific. He tested to the 50 percentile of the grades previously mentioned.

[pixelroper]

I just got the results from my 7 yr old first standardized testing. We are currently going thru what would be considered 2nd grade. His testing placed him at 4 th grade for spelling and 6th grade for general knowledge and 8 th grade for reading recognition and comprehension. I'm kind of blown away, I knew he was getting what we were doing but I didn't think he "got it" that much. It explains some of the boredom and the difficulty keeping him in age appropriate reading that is still challenging. Any ideas to fend off boredom, any book suggestions?

 

What exactly are you doing w/him now? Is he emotionally advanced as well? How about his critical thinking. What does he not find boring? I need more info to properly address your question--:)

[Nan in Mass]

People here often do is split a subject up into input and output. Bright children often need their input to be at a pretty high level, but may or may not be able to produce output at the same level. That means that a student may be reading a high school biology book in 2nd grade and loving it, but may not be able to write well enough to answer the essay questions or write a research paper or keep the lab notebook. The profoundly gifted ones seem to produce output on the same high level as their input. And some of them are capable of high level input and/or output, but don't want to do it.

 

People also ward off boredom by choosing to go deeper into a subject rather than faster in it, or adding more subjects, like more art, music, computer programming, chess, stacks of library books to read, hobbies, or another foreign language.

 

I hope you live near a good library because otherwise you are likely to go bankrupt just buying books for these voracious readers. LOL.

 

Enjoy!

-Nan

[Storm Bay]

Yes, we definitely split input and output, particularly with my ds. I started needing to get middle school science books to read to him when he was 4 to help satisfy his questions (sometimes that issn't enough and I have to get additional information, often here) but he wasn't ready to read yet. He's still not reading above age level, nor writing at age level, but I am fairly certain he will simply take off with reading at some point.