Literacy

Please go over your child's sight words daily! This will help with fluency! All sight words can be found on the front of your student's purple folder.

Trick Words  

the, a, and, are, to, is, his, as, has, 

was we, she, he, be, me, I, you, they 

or, for, of, have, from, by, my, do, one

Your student will be expected to progress to level D books by the end of the school year. This means your student should be able to pick up any level D book and read it without assistance. Below are examples of levels A for quarter one B for quarter two C for quarter three and D for quarter four.

Level A

• Very simple narratives carried by pictures

• Simple language patterns that are close to oral langauge

• Repeating language patterns

• Short, predictable sentences (usually five to ten words) that are close to oral language

• A few words that are new to children but easy to understand in context

• Concept words illustrated by pictures

• Repeated use of a few high-frequency words: and, to, up, the, here, look, is, it, me

•  Clear illustrations that fully support meaning

• Print in large, plain font

Level B

• Occasional use of a few words of dialogue, often in a speech bubble, or of unspoken thoughts shown in a thought bubble

• A few sentences with dialogue, usually a speech bubble or one or two words, or with unspoken thoughts shown in a thought bubble

• Words for sounds (onomatopoetic)

• Sentences turn over one or more lines

• Some use of question marks, commas, and quotation marks

Level C

• Simple retelling of folktales

• Some easy procedural texts

• Very simple narratives with beginning, middle, several episodes, and end

• Narrative texts with repetitive episodes

• Texts with underlying structural patterns: simple description, temporal sequence (nonfiction)

• A few stories with content familiar to children through prior experiences with storytelling, media, and hearing books read

• Simple plot with problem and solution

• Simple dialogue and dialogue with pronouns (assigned by said in many texts)

• Very simple procedural language

• More than one sentence pattern repeated in the same book

• Some sentences with clauses or phrases

• Some sentences that are questions

• Sentences with adjectives and prepositional phrases

• Some words with apostrophes, simple contractions and possessives

• Many texts with layout supporting phrasing

• Use of period, comma, question mark, exclamation mark, and quotation marks

• Ellipses in some texts to indicate that the sentence finishes on the next page

Level D

• Readers' theater scripts

• Variation in narrative structure, cumulative tales, circular stories

• Simple sequence of events (often repeated)

• Some use of split dialogue

• Variety of language structures

• Sentences with adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases

• A few sentences beginning with phrases

• Some variation in words used to assign dialogue: said, asked

• A few adverbs describing action

• Simple connectives (words, phrases that clarify relationships and ideas) and, but, so, before, after

• Simple (common) connectives

• Illustrations with details that add interest but do not distract from focusing on meaning

• Illustrations that add humor