The reading comprehension I promised

By Anonymous -
will be going home tomorrow.  See the note below.

October 22, 2012

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Last week I had intended to send home some samples of reading comprehension activities that your child has completed over the past four weeks.  Unfortunately, due to student absenteeism and conflicting band schedules I had to wait until today to send the work home.

Attached to this letter you will see three reading comprehension tests as well as two listening activities. The reading comprehension activities that you see attached to this letter assess base level comprehension.  In other words, the children are not really asked to infer, give personal connections or provide opinions.  This week your child will be given a test that requires him/her to answer higher order questions and I will forward you the results of that test in the coming weeks.

In the meantime, please review the stories attached to this letter with your child.  A Personal Introduction and Bella's Blade are both stories at a Grade 5 level, however, the selection about Scarecrows is a primary level selection.  The two listening activities each contain a rubric.  Most students performed exceptionally well on the listening comprehension assessments.

Please sign this note and have your child return the work to school so I can place it in his/her folder.  I like to keep copies of work so that we can refer to them during our conferences which will be here before we know it.

 Many thanks for your continued help and support,

 Deanne Burton Snow

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