100 BC Skills Cards

100 BC Skills Cards are tailored to the needs of students at each level of reading acquisition and color-coded to the leveling system, 100 Book Challenge Skills Cards help teachers, parents, and students recognize a student's level and focus on developing the necessary reading competencies for that level. Skills Cards make explicit what each student must practice in order to move to the next level.

Yellow through Red-Red levels include mastery of specific sight words/high-frequency words. 

White and up levels include representative vocabulary found throughout those books. 

Comprehension questions are keyed to the higher order thinking skills required by high-stakes tests.

The Skills Cards come in various colors - yellow, green, blue, red, white, orange and so on -  and  serve as an aid when students are reading books at their independent level.  (Independent Reading Level - the ability to read text that is fun, fast, and easy, not difficult or challenging.)

The 100 Book Challenge Skills Cards serve an important role in guiding your child to be both successful and prepared as they move into new independent reading levels over time. 

If your child's 100 Book Challenge independent level is Yellow-Yellow, Green, Green-Green, Blue, or Blue-Blue - the letter sounds and sight words, located on the front and back of each Skills Card are very important.  The sight words build on each other as students move through the 100 BC levels of reading. 

Home-Reading Tip #1:  Spend some time each night working with your child on their skills card(s) - especially the sight words and their meanings.  Make a set of flashcards and make a game out of them.  You'll begin to see changes!! 

On the front of each Skills Card there are 8 - 10 listed "Benchmarks" that your child is working towards demonstrating proficiently and consistently when he/she reads prior to moving to the next book-level.  We know that reading is more than being able to "call out" or say words; reading is all about getting meaning from written text.  Readers use specific reading strategies when attempting to comprehend a piece of text.

Home-Reading Tip #2: From your child's Skills Card, select one or two "Benchmarks" to work on each night.