Interesting meeting with Ms. Burke, Rachel's freakishly young teacher with a tattoo on her finger and black nail polish. This is her 2nd year of teaching, but she seems bright and enthusiastic and has attended some gifted-children seminars, so she has some ideas for teaching that we think will benefit Rachel. She has picked up on the fact that Rachel is a very advanced reader, so she's putting together an advanced reading group that will do more discussing the texts -- kind of like a book club, she said -- instead of teaching them to read.
They do a test every year called PALS (Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening) that tests spelling ability, word recognition, letter sounds, and oral reading in context, which tests word recognition, fluency and comprehension.
Benchmark is 20; the highest score is 48; Rachel got a 48. She recognized all the words from the first-, second-, third- and fourth-grade word lists; 16 out of 20 words from the fifth-grade word list and 18 words from the sixth-grade list (and 10, or half, from the seventh-grade word list). She reads 123 words per minute. She is at a sixth-grade level in accuracy, fluency and comprehension.
The benchmark "summed score" is 35; the highest is 68. Rachel got 68.
We are very proud.
She also got 80 percent of her math problems correct on a timed math test they gave her, and Ms. Burke thinks that's because Rachel ran out of time. She also took a test a few weeks ago that, although they didn't say this, Drew thinks it is one of the tests they use to determine whether Rachel is eligible for gifted services. Rachel reported that she didn't think it was very hard, and there was only one answer she wasn't sure of. We should get the results in a few weeks.
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