Monday, December 12, 2011

Reading Progress Reports

Since reading is such an important part of school, I thought I would take a little time to touch on the amazing progress the girls have made in this area.  I just gave them a reading assessment and both are performing well above grade level.

                       Date                Words Per Minute:

Annabelle:     July 2011                 27
                        Dec 2011                54                                     

Aliah:             July 2010                39
                      July 2011               119
                      Dec 2011               173

Both girls have excellent accuracy (95% and 99%, respectively) and good comprehension of what they are reading.   Annabelle is reading about a grade level above 1st grade and Aliah is reading several grade levels above 3rd grade.  Perhaps it's all of the practice she gets with chapter book a day. 

I might note, that Aliah was a "late bloomer" with reading, but when she took off there was no stopping for her.  I am glad that homeschooling accommodated this learning style and she wasn't labeled as a poor or slow reader.  It just took a little time and patience. 

1 comments:

Deidra Haigh said...

Woh! Blog explosion! :) Kudos to the girls and you on the reading development. Such great progress!