Re: Harry Potter Commentary
Daven
daven@priest.com
Tue Oct 17 09:29:38 2000
Beirdd wrote,*p*: <snipped a really interesting response>*p*And from what I just read, that is the most terrifying thing of all.  When a child can't read the book that is the center of controversy.  I know when my parents and schoolteachers tried to pull books from the shelf, I went out of my way to get them so that I could read the "forbidden fruits".  It's sad to think that most children can't do that.*p*I have even more reason to be thankful now.  My child got her Tennessee TCAP scores back from 2.7 (Grade 2, 7th month) and they about knocked the cloting off her mother and I.  Reading at 5.5, Language structure at 11.8, and every literary skill at least two grade levels above her supposed grade.  The only place she scored IN her grade bracket was in math skills.*p*I don't understand how some of this could happen.  To help our child to this level didn't take much.  That I know of.  But then, I can claim to live a bit of a "privelaged" life.  We have things like computers and books in our house.  When my daughter was 1, she had books around her.  And she sees us reading all the time.  So I don't know.  I do know that she (at 8) tried to read the first Harry Potter book, but it was slightly too advanced for her.  Which says something all by itself.*p*Daven
Re: Harry Potter Commentary
Beirdd
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Sun Sep 24 21:48:25 2000