Guided Reading Level A-L Skills
Level A Skills
Can hold a book
Show & name front of a book
Show & name back of a book
Tell what a period is.
Knows where to start reading and which way to go.
Understands the difference between letters and numerals.
Understands that letters make sounds and are used to make words
Can hear beginning sounds of words
Can hear when words are the same or different
Uses prediction to figure out unknown words based on picture clues and/or beginning sounds
Level B Skills
Can find and know the purpose of: title, title page
Ellipsis (…)
Exclamation point
Word families: -at, -am, -ot, -og
Can hear ending sounds
Understands that adding s to the end of a noun means more than one
Meaning clues with pictures (Semantics)
Prediction based on title & cover picture (What is this story going to be about?)
Can write a simple phrase
Level C Skills
Distinguishes between words and sentences
Word Families: -an -ad -ig -it
Distinguishes between the beginning/ending of a sentence
Quotation marks means someone’s talking
Purpose of a question mark
Recognizes Speech Bubbles
Return Sweep
Can find author/illustrator
All letter sounds except soft c & g
Hears rhyme
Understands the concept of compound words
Can tell a story in order
Prediction in a story
Independently writes a sentence with I (ex. I can run.)
Can tell a complete simple sentence
Level D Skills
Using a comma to pause
Recognizes suffixes (s, es, ing)
Knows what the author & illustrator does
Knows what a ? is
Word Families (-ug, -et)
Hears medial sounds in words
Contractions with is (he’s, she’s it’s)
Contraction I’m
Opposites
Writes a telling sentence
Identifies main character’s feelings
Answers questions about a story
Level E Skills
Can tell what an apostrophe is in contractions
The l Blends(bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl)
Hears medial sounds in words
Contractions with not
Recognizes root words
Suffix –ed
Identifies main character
Can write all sight words through level D
Independently writes a simple question
Level F Skills
Can identify an apostrophe in possessives
Word families: -all, -ame, -ake, -ive
Soft c and g
Consonant digraphs: sh, ch, th, wh
Contractions with will
Comparative (er) and Superlative (est)
Recognizes possessive-‘s
Meaning clues using text, ie, cloze (semantics)
Writes more complex sentences (such as using adjectives)
Level G Skills
Reads Bold Print and/or Print Size
r-blends: br cr dr fr gr pr tr
Contractions with are(We’re , They’re, You’re)
Distinguishes between: fantasy & realism
Writes sentences that show possession
Word Families: -ode, -ice, -ide, -ail, -ain, -ack,
-ick, -ock, -uck, -eep, -all, -ook
Level H Skills
Print Size for Inflection
Uses personal pronouns in writing
Word Families: -ow, -out, -ing, -ang, -ong,
-ung, -aw, -ound
Level I Skills
Number of syllables in an oral word
Recognizes nouns
Recognizes verbs
Writes 2 sentences about a topic
Level J Skills
Recognizes adjectives
Level 2 Skills (K)
Identifies the beginning/end of paragraphs
Explicit Main Idea
Cause and Effect
Compare and Contrast
Uses dictionary & glossary skills for word meanings
Writes 3 sentences about a topic
Uses commas in a series of items
Level 3 Skills (L)
Table of Contents
Glossary
Index
Headings and Subheadings
Abbreviations/Acronyms
R-controlled Vowels
Writes 3 sentences about a topic using appropriate punctuation & capitalization