Analyzing Raz-Kids

I wanted to say how impressed I am with how much the children are participating in Rag-Kids. This resource is wonderful because it promotes so many of the skills we learn in class, focusing on comprehension by asking the children to identify setting, characters, key details and much more!

Our top participant in the class has earned over 7,000 stars!!! Wow! Great work!

I also wanted to let all of you know that I have updated the reading levels in Raz-Kids to the latest level which your child performed on the DRA reading analysis. I hope this helps engage your child more seeing as each level should be right where they are able to learn!

In addition to updating the reading levels, I analyzed the reports on how the students are performing on quizzes and what they are excelling in and areas where they may need some extra attention.

The area where the children are performing about 70% in correctly answering questions related to the text on retelling key details in the story. This tells me that many of the children are missing what the story is actually about. To help encourage these retelling skills and making connections with key details in the story, try having your child read you a story and then ask them to tell you what happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then ask them to identify the events which took place that they believe were the most important and have them tell you why. Having a discussion about the story will help them to increase their comprehension skills and improve in understanding what key details are for future stories as well. It is ok for this to just be a conversation that you have after they finish reading you the book, however, if you would like to take their learning further, remember, you can always print out and utilize these comprehension worksheets:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HwF4Kdvk_0SS7IYmCr1a3MTOFHsMtKiA/view

Thank you so much for working with your child at home. I know these are unusual times and we are all trying our best to navigate them!