Students will be tracking their growth in reading this year! Check your child's O.C.E.A.N Leadership Binder and celebrate their successes! Our goal is for every student to make one year's growth in reading.

Reading Level Expectations By Quarter:

End of 1st Quarter- Level E/6 - 8

End of 2nd Quarter- Level G/12

End of 3rd Quarter- Level H/14

End of 4th Quarter- Level I/16

Reading Strategies/ Skills to practice by reading level:

Below are some of the skills and strategies that you may practice with your child as they progress through reading levels.

Level D

*Use eyes to track instead of finger.

*Use finger only when having difficulty.

*Look at root words and notice endings. (Ex: looked)

*Understand how to read words with endings. -s, -ed, -ing

*Think about what you can do to help yourself when you are stuck on a word. (see tricky word strategy page)

*Practice retelling in order.

Level E and F

*Talk/Think about what you already know about topic before you read.

*Only use eyes to track print unless you get stuck.

*Make predictions about what will happen next in story.

* Retell with a beginning, middle and end.

* Identify other books that had characters, places or events that were alike.

* How do characters’ feelings change?

* Practice sounding like character is feeling.

Level G and H

*Use what you know about topic to figure out tricky words.

*Think about what looks right and sounds right in the story.

*Correct self quickly once you know the right word.

*Reread to make sure story is clear and you understand.

* Identify characters and describe what they are like.

* Describe how characters’ change throughout the story.

*Make connections to self.

* Notice characters, places and events that were like those in other books read.

*Retell using main events with a beginning middle and end.

Level I and J

*Reread to make sure story is clear and you understand.

*Discuss connections to other books.

*Understand how characters are feeling and explain times when you felt that way.

*Connect to the character by how you have seen others react in the same situation.

*Understand how story is written to show different points of view.

*Identify the theme, lesson or big idea in the story.

Level K and L and M

*Reread to make sure story is clear and you understand.

*Remember what you read before to help you understand as you read.

*Follow character throughout story as they change/feel and then follow them into other stories too. (How do the books in these series build on one another?

*Read dialogue like a conversation and sound like characters.

*Identify various problems and solutions characters face throughout story.

*Identify lessons learned