What reading level is your K'er on?

[Anonymous]

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Trajectories will vary enormously and you cannot tell in K how they will develop. He has to enjoy the process. Please, don't ever push him.

DC1 was reading BOB books in K. He started on the Harry Potter series and went on a Roald Dahl binge in 1st grade.

DC2 was reading the next level up from BOB books in K. So far she has read Charlotte's Web, The Tale of Despereaux, Just So Stories, the first harry Potter in 1st grade.

I strongly suspect it's because my kids have seen me reading for pleasure ever since they can remember, that they got the reading bug too.

Those reading campaigns shouldn't be "read to your kids", they should be "read for yourself, and your kids will follow".

Pretty sure you have to read to your kids in addition to having them watch you read a book.

Duh. The point is you can read to them until you're blue in the face but the real motivation and love of reading comes from seeing their parents love to read.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our K dd is bringing home letters, not books.

Our K DS is also bringing home letters - when he's bringing home anything at all. I'm sure it'll pick up, but so far we're not seeing much "reading" being taught

You're really going to have to do most of the reading prep at home.

Nah, just chill tf out and let your kindergartner be a kindergartner. Learning letters and sounds is learning reading.

[Anonymous]

Did OP tell us what reading level her kid is?

[Anonymous]

I think DD started at a 1 or 2

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did OP tell us what reading level her kid is?

Of course not, she's that type of person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did OP tell us what reading level her kid is?

Of course not, she's that type of person.

And she also forbade us from contributing if we didn't have the exact reading level

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Trajectories will vary enormously and you cannot tell in K how they will develop. He has to enjoy the process. Please, don't ever push him.

DC1 was reading BOB books in K. He started on the Harry Potter series and went on a Roald Dahl binge in 1st grade.

DC2 was reading the next level up from BOB books in K. So far she has read Charlotte's Web, The Tale of Despereaux, Just So Stories, the first harry Potter in 1st grade.

I strongly suspect it's because my kids have seen me reading for pleasure ever since they can remember, that they got the reading bug too.

Those reading campaigns shouldn't be "read to your kids", they should be "read for yourself, and your kids will follow".

Pretty sure you have to read to your kids in addition to having them watch you read a book.

Duh. The point is you can read to them until you're blue in the face but the real motivation and love of reading comes from seeing their parents love to read.

Not at our house. I am a huge reader myself and also read to her every day. So far DD is not that interested. She's in third. I think she just has different interests than I do. We'll see how things progress as she gets older.

[Anonymous]

How do you guys even know this? Consider myself pretty involved parent, at W school - and no idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD is reading a lot of Percy Jackson this month.

OP if you go by Scholastic's interpretation of book levels, Percy Jackson is 26. Another PP mentioned other books: Charlotte's Web is also 26. Harry Potter, The Tale of Despereaux and much Roald Dahl are 28. Maybe you already know this, but MCPS expected range for K goes up to level 6. For 1st it goes up to 18. For 2nd it goes up to around 22. I'm sure DCUM will correct me if I'm misunderstanding the system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD is reading a lot of Percy Jackson this month.

OP if you go by Scholastic's interpretation of book levels, Percy Jackson is 26. Another PP mentioned other books: Charlotte's Web is also 26. Harry Potter, The Tale of Despereaux and much Roald Dahl are 28. Maybe you already know this, but MCPS expected range for K goes up to level 6. For 1st it goes up to 18. For 2nd it goes up to around 22. I'm sure DCUM will correct me if I'm misunderstanding the system.

OP didn't want to do the work, so thanks for doing it for her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our K dd is bringing home letters, not books.

Our K DS is also bringing home letters - when he's bringing home anything at all. I'm sure it'll pick up, but so far we're not seeing much "reading" being taught

You're really going to have to do most of the reading prep at home.

Nah, just chill tf out and let your kindergartner be a kindergartner. Learning letters and sounds is learning reading.

+1

[Anonymous]

Both of my kids started Kindergarten unable to read. One ended the year at level 7 and as a 4th grader was 99th% on the Map-R. My younger ended Kindergarten at level 10 but started first grade at level 14 (developmental leap -- not taught). She is in the upper middle reading group at a high performing school.

[Anonymous]

DD is in 1st. Started K as an 8, ended as a 16. Was assessed this fall by her 1st grade teacher at an 18 on DRA. This is advanced for the age, but not incredibly so, but I know she has classmates across a whole spectrum of current reading abilities.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/guidedreading/leveling_chart.htm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you guys even know this? Consider myself pretty involved parent, at W school - and no idea.

do you mean reading level? It's on the back on the books the kids bring home in their reading bag, assuming they bring home a reading bag.

[Anonymous]

My kindergartener has good pre-reading skills, but she's not reading at all.