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Posted: Oct 02 2006 at 5:45pm | IP Logged Quote TracyQ
Hi all,
     I was wondering if any of you have ever thought about, or done something to determine your child's reading level? I am interested in knowing my childrens' reading level (as Sarah asked what hers is today), and wasn't sure how to go about doing that? I don't want to spend a lot of money to do it if that's possible either.

    Does anyone know anything about how to go about doing that? Thanks.


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Posted: Oct 05 2006 at 12:15pm | IP Logged Quote TracyQ
Answering my own question, I was able to find a few resources online to help me try to at least give me an idea.    They aren't ideal, but at least I have an idea now. Thanks.

I also did a search on this list to see, and there was a thread or two on this subject too.

Thanks.

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We use SWR and they recommend the McCall Crabb's books. I don't know much about them, just what I've read as we don't have them yet. But there are books A - E. Each book has a lot of 3-minute(?) stories with comprehension questions at the end. You are supposed to time your child and then ask the questions at the end. You can determine your child's reading level by the number of questions they answer correctly.

As we don't have them yet, I also have wondered about this question. The other night my dd7 was reading (slowly) through a chapter book from the library. I was curious so after she went to bed, so I typed up a page or so into Microsoft Word and did the Readability Statistics. It came out at a 4.5 grade level. I'm guessing this isn't really accurate but it gave me an idea.

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http://home.comcast.net/~ngiansante/

This is a great site.

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Posted: Oct 25 2006 at 11:21am | IP Logged Quote TracyQ
Thank you, Alice. I bookmarked it.

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Posted: Nov 03 2006 at 2:41pm | IP Logged Quote Mama Moon
That's so helpful. I can check their levels just by looking up the titles of some of the books they are reading. Much better than testing!


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