So, What's going on? I found out he scored a 5 out of 10 on his third quiz on verbs, adjectives and nouns. After all the review work we did and game playing online. I am not shocked. I really didn't think he had it figured out yet.
Unfortunately this grade counts. Mrs. Ketchum has to move on, of course. She says she will work on it when she can in class and I will do the same at home.
I printed some worksheets for a great website I found today. I printed a specific Verb Worksheet for Will to do tonight. He had 22 sentences where he had to circle the action verb. Then about 15 words listed and he had to label whether they were a noun or an action verb.
He got 100% correct.
How the heck did he do that? The only think I can figure is that he was told specifically what he was looking for in the sentence. He did not have to look at a word and decide what part of speech it was, which requires understanding the context of the word. I think simply identifying the verb is significantly easier. In the second part of the worksheet he had to look at the words and identify them. Again he aced it. Why? How?
I am getting really confused again about whether I should be pushing for some testing for him. I am going to call an old friend tomorrow and ask her opinion. She is a reading specialist in a different school district. I am curious to hear her take on what we are dealing with. I don't know if I am creating a bigger deal out of this than needs to be.
I emailed Mrs. Ketchum this evening and asked her opinion on testing or not, too. I just feel kind of lost right now. Again.
This whole school not being a breeze thing is not working for me. This is not how it was supposed to be!
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