Today in folders you will find our second grade reading chart. We have filled out our beginning of the year level and where they ended up when I tested them in November. Each grade level is between the black lines to help you understand where they should be. All students should be at a 28 by the end of this school year.

Some things to understand:

The levels go up not just based on reading! They have to retell the story (beginning, middle, end details, characters, setting, main idea, problem, solution), identify words and meanings, and in the levels above 24 they have to have WRITTEN responses to the text! So it is much harder to go up levels the higher they get. That is why you will see Kindergarten and first grade are required to pass 5 levels each where in second grade we only have 4 to master, third grade has 3 and so on.

I can tell you all of the students stopped at their particular reading level because of story retell, comprehension and writing responses. This is why this is a part of our daily Montessori work time and a big part of our small group time. The more we practice the better we will get at it.

Congrats to all my little readers! I am so proud of you and your progress this year so far… I reminded them also.. Keep reading! We want to get as far as we can at the end of the year! 🙂