school meeting... DRA2 and reading

Emma had her meeting with her resource consultant (RC) today. We meet with her once a month to see how things are going and so she can get handouts to us and just talk. We decided to meet down at the office this month to take a look at the DRA2 books.

I learned a lot about the DRA2 test and books today. I did not realize that it was more on understanding the context than actually being able to read the words correctly. When I first looked at the books, I was confused because even the 1's Emma was not 100% into yet, but going with the understanding that using the picture to figure it out, she is higher I think.

We will probably test mid spring (required) and test again in the fall (not required). I also talked a bit with her RC and the reading specialist about how her reading program is set up and whether we were doing too much each lesson (which I was starting to think). The lesson teaches a sound and then has a review list of words and new words to read and then sentances as well. The list of words is sometimes 100+ which takes us a couple days to get through. They both agreed that we could just go through the words she has trouble with and the words that have the new sounds and that should be fine. I kind of was starting to realize that. So we will start doing that more and maybe run through the entire list every 5 lessons.