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Alberta DistanceLearning Centre
Reading Level Correlation Chart
Grade LevelReading Recover
Key Links’ Colours
Fountas-Pinnell Guided Reading
DRABasal
EquivalentLexile Levels
Kindergarten
A, BA
AReadiness
PrePrimer 1
1 1
2 B 2
3C
3
Grade 1
4 4PrePrimer 2
PrePrimer 3
5D 6
6
7 E 8
8
9 F 10
Primer10
11 G 12
12
13 H 14
Grade 1 200-29914
15 I 16
16
Grade 218 J J, K 20
Grade 2300-399
20 L, M 28 400-499
Grade 322 N
30
Grade 3500-599
34
24 O, P 38 600-699
Grade 4 26 Q, R, S 40 Grade 4 700-799
Grade 5 28 T, U, V 44 Grade 5 800-899
Grade 6 30 W, X, Y Grade 6 900-999
Grade 7 32 Z Grade 71000-1100
Grade 8 34 Z Grade 8
Key Links’ Colours
magenta red yellow blue green orange turquoise purple gold
Alberta Distance Learning Centre 2 Guided Reading Information
The Language Arts program for the primary grades has three components:
• Guided Reading
• Read-Alouds
• Writing Traits
The Guided Reading involves using the Guided Reading Lessons in the Guide for Learning with the little coloured leveled readers. Each lesson follows the same structure:
• Introduction
• Preview
• View
• Retell
• Independent Reading
Also, two or more activities from the Word Building/Phonics section should be completed with each reader. There is also a writing exercise called Response to Reader with each reader. (In the last four levels it is called instead Writer Notebook). You will need to submit the writing exercises for me to look at. A good time to send in two to five responses is when you have completed a running record with your child. At that point, send in the running record, two to five Response to Reader selections, the Student Self-Reflections and your Magenta(or whatever colour you have) Checklists. These are found in the Appendix section of the Guide for Learning. Before you start the Guided Reading Lessons, the centre activities in the Centre Activity Booklet need to be assembled. These activities are very important.
Each Read-Aloud grade set contains20books; however, your child will be sent 10 books. Each Read-Aloud book has 5 accompanying lessons. The Read-Aloud Guide for Learning contains the teaching lessons, which are structured as such:
Skill Checklist
• Materials
• Before Reading
• During Reading
• After Reading
Once all 5 lessons of a Read-aloud book are completed, please send the work in with the applicable Student Self-Assessments and Instructor Formative Assessments (found in the coiled Instructor Formative Assessment book).
Alberta Distance Learning Centre 3 Guided Reading Information
There are 6 Writing Traits in our LA program. Please complete the traits in the following order:
1. Conventions
2. Word Choice
3. Organization
4. Sentence Fluency
5. Ideas
6. Voice
There are 5 lessons (Grade 1) or 10 lessons (Grade 2 and in Grade 3) for each writing trait. Once all 5 or 10 lessons have been completed, please send the work in for marking along with the appropriate Student Self-Assessments and Writing Traits Instructor Formative Assessments (found in the back of the coiled Instructor Formative Assessment book).
Depending on your child’s reading colour level, you may also receive a book called My Reader’s Journal. Any book your child reads can be used in the journal activities. This journal can be submitted at the end of the year (or send in scanned copies throughout the year).
Through all writing activities, it is important to encourage your child to write his/her words as much as possible. You can help him/her sound out words or locate or add them into My Dictionary. If you are helping your child spell a word, it is critical to not just write it for him/her, but to use this as a teaching opportunity to review sounds and how to put sounds together. The following websites give additional information about the writing stages in children.
http://wwcsd.net/~goodwinm/Writingstages.htm
http://www.wiu.edu/itlc/ws/ws1/docs/Stages_of_%20ChildWrit.pdf
As a parent or guardian, you are the most important teacher in your child’s life. My goal is to work along-side you to encourage your child’s incredible potential. I look forward to working and communicating with your family, so to witness the learning growth in your child this year. We are on the same winning team, cheering our star player onwards in this vital subject that is the foundation of all learning.
Alberta Distance Learning Centre 4 Guided Reading Information
Guided Reading
There are 9 colour levels for grades 1-3 from the reading program, Key Links. Your child will be placed in an appropriate colour level after speaking with the teacher. Students can progress through 2-3 levels in a year. Each level takes approximately 3 months to complete. The readers increase in difficulty throughout the individual sets and also throughout the levels. The Magenta level contains 20 readers, the Red, Yellow, Blue and Green levels contain 24 readers, and the Orange, Turquoise, Purple and Gold contain 12 readers.
The Guide for Learning gives an explanation of the course structure and also includes the Guided Reading Lessons.
On average each reader should be read 3 to 5 times during 2 to 3 days. An example could be as follows:
Day 1: Complete the Introduction, Preview, View and Review; then work on Word Building/Phonics activities.
These activities need to be pre-assembled and are found in the Centre Activity portion.
Plastic baggies or envelopes work well in organizing the games/activities. At the beginning of the Centre Activity Booklet, the different activities are explained. The Appendix section of the Centre Activity Booklet explains how to prepare the activities. These activities are extremely important for your child to do in order to progress in his or her language arts skills.
Alberta Distance Learning Centre 5 Guided Reading Information
Day 2: Reread the reader, complete the Retell/Recall, and then complete the Response to Reader. Note for the last four colour levels, students have instead a Writer Notebook. You can request from your teacher, templates of these writings. If time remains, complete Word Building/Phonics activities.
Day 3: Reread the reader, and place it in the child’s Independent Reading box. Complete the Word Building/Phonics activities. The Word Building/Phonics centre activities need to be prepared ahead of time and they are found in the Centre Activity Booklet.
Depending on the colour reading level - a printing booklet (magenta, red, yellow) or reader’s journal (blue, green, orange, turquoise) or poetry booklet (purple or gold) will be included as part of the Word Building/Phonics section.
As the parent, you will be doing reading assessments with your child. This part is called the Running Record. On the last page of the Guide for Learning, the Running Records are listed. The Appendix part of the Guide for Learning explains how to do the records. It also contains the pages needed to record your child’s running record. The books needed for the Running Records are included in the package of colour leveled readers. As you follow the lessons in the B you will eventually get to a book that is to be used as a Running Record. Do the Running Record first before you complete the lesson. It is important the Running Record be an unpracticed reading of the book. Once a Running
Alberta Distance Learning Centre 6 Guided Reading Information
Record is completed, call the teacher and discuss your child’s progress. At this point, the Running Record, samples of the Response to Reader, the Coloured level Checklist and student’s 4 self-reflections can be sent in together for marking. Instead of photocopying the self-reflections, have the child use 4 different crayon colours and make a key indicating which colour was used on which day. These pieces are found in the Appendix area in the Guide for Learning.
Once your child is finished his/her last reader, contact the teacher to set up a time for a Running Record. During this time the teacher will give your child access to a book and complete a reading assessment with him/her.
Isabel RempelToll Free Number: 1-866-774-5333 Extension 5153Skype: isabel_rempel_adlc.caEmail: [email protected]: 780-674-7593
