My 3rd grade dd brought home her progress report yesterday. In the reading standards she got 2 4’s and 3 3’s. (In the infinite wisdom of our school district, all K-6 grades have eliminated letter grades. A 4 is Above Grade Level Expectation, A 3 is at Grade level, a 2 is below, and 1 in incomplete data. So much for being labeled a straight A student anymore? :) ).
She is now above grade level with ’ applying a variety of strategies (e.g. picture clues, context clues, and word substitutions) to make sense of words’. As well as selects approprate text when given a purpose for reading. The other standards have to do with comprehension(predicting/inferring), using text features to comprehend (like glossary, index, main idea), and then story elements.
Looks like she is well on her way to being a ‘whole language’ reader!
Funny tho - there are no standards for ‘decoding’ anything?
Oh well - I’m proud she actually got a couple 4’s when it’s still only the 2nd trimester progress report. Reading is now her strongest subject!
Now we just have to work on spelling in dailly work!
Re: Reading is now her strongest subject!
Interesting how competent phonic readers become superlative whole-language readers.
That’s a great accomplishment, Dea! Pretty funny about the whole langauge readers…I agree with your thoughts there!
Janis