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The reading and writing report card indicators are based on end-of-year standards from the Common Core. It is common for students to still be “Developing” toward those standards midyear. Unmarked indicators have not yet been assessed.
Foundational Skills:
Reading Habits: Reads with stamina and engagement
Print Concepts: Understands basic features of print; left-right, spaces, text-voice match. Recognizes and names all capital and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
Phonological Awareness: Demonstrates understanding of syllables, sounds (phonemes), and rhyming words
Phonics: Decodes all consonant sounds, CVC words in isolation, and all short vowel sounds
Sight Words: Reads grade-appropriate high frequency words by sight
Comprehension: Reads and comprehends texts at grade level
Narrative Reading:
Summarize: With prompting, retells a story including beginning, middle, and end
Compare and Contrast: With prompting, identifies similarities and differences in familiar stories
Informational Reading:
Summarize: With prompting, identifies the main topic and retells key facts
Text Features: With prompting, uses text features to locate key facts or information
Analysis: With support, compares and contrasts two texts on similar topics
The reading and writing report card indicators are based on end-of-year standards from the Common Core. It is common for students to still be “Developing” toward those standards midyear. Unmarked indicators have not yet been assessed.
Foundational Skills:
Reading Habits: Reads independently with stamina and engagement
Print Concepts: Understands features of a sentence (first word, capitals, end punctuation)
Phonological Awareness: Demonstrates understanding of spoken words, syllables, & sounds (phonemes)
Phonics: Decodes long and short vowel sounds, regularly spelled one and two syllable words, and common consonant digraphs
Sight Words: Reads grade-appropriate high-frequency words by sight
Fluency: Reads texts with accuracy and fluency at grade level
Comprehension: Comprehends texts at grade level
Narrative Reading:
Summarize: Retells major events in a story, including characters, setting and key details
Compare and Contrast: Identifies similarities and differences in familiar stories
Informational Reading:
Summarize: Identifies the main topic and retells key details
Text Features: Uses text features to locate key facts or information
Analysis: Compares and contrasts two texts on similar topics