[A-Z + 1-70 English Bundle] Reading Levels Explained for Parents | Parent Guide
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Description
Supporting students’ reading at home is easy when you have ready-to-go reading level guides written with parent-friendly vocabulary. These Guided Reading Level Parent Letters are designed to explain the specific characteristics of students’ independent and instructional reading levels. Simply provide during parent teacher reading conferences to explain a child’s reading accuracy, fluency, comprehension, and more. These parent handouts are also perfect to send home in book bags and with students’ reading assessments.
This resource includes:
- Resource rationale
- Note to the teacher
- Suggested use and tips
- Parent informational parts explained
- Reading Level Parent Letters Levels A-Z + DRA Levels 1-70
- English with levels and English without levels
Each reading level guide for parents explains:
What the independent level means, its characteristics, and what their child is mastering.
What the instructional level means, its characteristics, and what their child is working on. How families can support their child’s reading at home at that level.
A breakdown of reading accuracy, fluency and comprehension at that level.
These reading level guides work with the following assessment systems:
✔️ TRC
✔️ DRA
✔️ Fountas & Pinnell
✔️ Reading A-Z
✔️ Guided Reading
✔️ Accelerated Reader
✔️ Reading Recovery
✔️ Reading Stages
✔️ And more…
How this resource will solve common problems for you and your parents:
❌ Problem: Are you unsure of how to ask and describe to parents the specific ways to help their child when reading at home?
✅ Solution: Implementing this guide for parents during your parent teacher reading conference, will allow you to give parents a clear description of how they can help their child when reading at home. From modeling reading skills, asking comprehension questions, and encouraging self correction skills.
❌ Problem: Are you unsure of the specific language to use when discussing guided reading levels with parents so that they understand?
✅ Solution: This handout will allow you to do so without confusing parents. The format in this guide for parents breaks all the parts of a growing reader down to accuracy, fluency, and comprehension, with clear examples for parents to understand.
❌ Problem: Do you have trouble describing a child’s guided reading level to parents so they understand their strengths and weaknesses?
✅ Solution: This guide for parents during your parent teacher conference describes a child’s independent and instructional reading level with examples that go along with books, which allows parents to visually see and hear when their child is reading.
What teachers are saying about this resource:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This is one of the best resources I have ever purchased. This resource is excellent for parents to help them understand their child's reading level and the work they can do around it. LOVE IT!” - Tania R.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This resource has been invaluable in including in students' reading bags. Parents understand the reading level their child is at and what they can do to help them reach the next level. Thank you so much for creating this resource!”- Nora D.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “My niece came home with this during parent conference and I just had to get it for my own class. This product saved me so much time.” - Pretty S.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This is one of my favorite resources! It explains the reading levels to the parents so clearly and I LOVE how it gives suggestions on how to move their child to the next level. This is truly an essential resource for teachers to give to the parents.” - Amy B.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This resource is INCREDIBLE. I am so thankful for the clear and detailed explanations. Explaining GR levels to parents is one of the most challenging things and this made it VERY clear. Thank you!” - Deidre B.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I've been teaching for 15 years now, and I have never been able to fit everything I want to explain about reading levels into a parent conference. With this very parent-friendly page, I can communicate the most important parts that their child should work on, and the parents have something to take home and review. I love that it tells you what they will be doing at the next level. This is one of my favorite resources. Thanks so much!” - Heidi H.
✅ If your goal as a teacher is to have proper and supportive reading communication from school to home, then this resource is for you!
These parent handouts will guide not only the parent teacher conference itself, but also parent actions at home. As teachers, we want parents to reinforce the skills and strategies we use during small group reading instruction. Directly providing parents with specific ways to do this is the best way to achieve that goal.
More details about this resource:
- Included are two sets of letters - one with the reading levels listed on each and one with the levels removed.
- This resource is a print and go parent guide and comes in black and white for easy printing. You can print on any color paper you would like.
- IT IS NOT EDITABLE.
- This resource is available in two separate versions - English and Spanish. If you would like the Spanish version, please click below to shop.
To shop ALL versions of this resource to find the best one for your students, click below:
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Other Resources You May Also Like:
✔ I HEART Guided Reading Bundle
✔ Reading Level Question Stems
✔ Parent Comprehension Letters (Fiction / Literature)
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