My friend has just emailed me a copy of the reading age test used in her ds's private school, and I am amazed that it is simply a list of increasingly difficult words - just decoding and nothing about knowing what the words mean? And some of the words are very obscure. What's the point of that?
I will, of course, get ds to do it, and if he does well I will tell my friend - if he doesn't I will send a carefully crafted email about what a pointless test it is but I am genuinely interested. What was the thinking behind this sort of test and are they still widely used? I don't think they do anything like this at ds's school - or if they do no-one's told me!
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Reading age tests....why?
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seeker · 10/04/2009 08:45
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