A Reading Record page for each child accompanies the set of 32 Level 1 readers. The Reading Record is used to monitor the reading progress of each individual learner. Every learner must have his/her own Reading Record. This allows the child to share responsibility and take pride in their own reading development. The teacher will use the Reading Record to document whether a learner has managed to master all the stories at a particular star level. This means that the learner must be able to read all those texts fluently and with understanding. Once this is the case then the learner may progress to the next star level. Keeping an accurate record for each learner is very important as every star level builds incrementally on the phonics, sight words, vocabulary and sentence structures that have been previously introduced and practised.
The Model Answers Book contains the answers to the comprehension questions and language activities in the readers and provides exemplars for the writing activities.
The purpose of these model answers is to provide the teacher and the learners with guidelines as to the correct answers required by the comprehension questions, and language and writing activities. The model answers include both memoranda and exemplars. Obviously, each learner will answer an open question in their own way. As long as the core answer is embedded in the sentence, it is acceptable, even if the wording differs from that of the suggested model answer.
For large classes, the model answers can be photocopied and given to those learners who are able to check their own work accurately and with understanding, working independently or in pairs or groups.