After each daily reading students will complete a formative assessment. They will complete copy work daily. This means they copy a passage, letter by letter, under your example. Write the passage on the line above, leaving space on the next line for your child to copy. This way they can learn spelling, grammar, and punctuation directly from what they’re reading. They’ll pick a passage they like from the reading and copy 1-3 sentences per assignment. After copying the passage, have them read it out loud. They’ll also provide oral narrations of what they read each day, retelling the reading in their own words, using visual aids if desired. Listen without interrupting, and save questions for after. Finally, they will select 1 vocabulary word per day. Have them write down the vocabulary word, look up and write down the definition, and then use the word to write a sentence (either from the book or a sentence they make up).

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At the end of the book students will complete a summative assessment. Summative assessments for level 1 are completed as family discussions. You ask the questions, and your child answers them. There are no wrong answers with summative assessments. This is a time for your child to discuss what they took from the reading.

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Book 1: Old Mother West Wind by Thornton W. Burgess
🍎Click here for full instructions and work text for Old Mother West Wind

​📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Dover Thrift

 

Summative assessment discussion prompt: If you could meet one of the animals, who would it be, and what would you ask them?

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Book 2: Holidays and Happy Days by Hamish Hendry
🍎Click here for full instructions and work text for Holidays and Happy Days

​📕Recommended print edition: not currently available

 

Summative assessment discussion prompt: Which of the holidays sounded like the most fun to celebrate? What did you like about it?

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Book 3: Among the Meadow People by Clara Dillingham Pierson

​📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Photographic Edition

 

Summative assessment discussion prompt: Which meadow animal’s story did you enjoy the most, and what did it teach you?

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Book 4: Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

​📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition 

 

Summative assessment discussion prompt: What was the most important change you saw in Betsy throughout the story, and why do you think it mattered?

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Book 5: Viking Tales by Jennie Hall

​📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

Summative assessment discussion prompt: If you could ask one of the Vikings a question about their journey, who would it be, and what would you want to know?

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Book 6: Beatrix Potter Treasury by Beatrix Potter (the following stories are assigned: The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tailor of Gloucester, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan, The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, The Story of Miss Moppet, The Tale of Tom Kitten, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, The Tale of Mr. Tod, The Tale of Pigling Bland, Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes, The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse)

📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | All-in-One Treasury 

📗Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Boxed Set

 

Summative assessment discussion prompt: Which story or character from Beatrix Potter’s tales did you enjoy the most, and what did you like about them?

 

Book 7: The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner

​📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Dover Original

 

Summative assessment discussion prompt: What creative ways were the children able to survive on their own?

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Book 8: Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne

​📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Complete Tales

 

Summative assessment discussion prompt: How did the friends solve problems together, and what can we learn from their teamwork?

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Book 9: Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney

​📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

Summative assessment discussion prompt: What challenges did the Pepper family face, and how did they handle them?

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Book 10: Louisa May Alcott Reader by Louisa May Alcott

​📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Public Domain Print 

 

Summative assessment discussion prompt: Which of the stories did you relate to the most? How did it remind you of your own life?