Guide
What belongs in a progress report for parents
Parents do not want percentages. They want to know what their child can do now, what you are working on, and whether it is going well. A one-page report answers those three questions and nothing else.
In short
A parent-ready reading progress report has four parts: what the student can do now (secure skills), what is being worked on (developing skills and anything needing support), the last few lessons with dates, and what comes next. Plain words, one page, no scores.
The four parts
- Secure: skills the student uses independently. This is the good news, and it goes first.
- Working on: skills rated Developing, and any rated Needs support with a line on what you are doing about them.
- Recent lessons: the last five to ten with dates and minutes. It shows the work happened.
- Next: the next two or three lessons in the sequence, so the parent knows where this is going.
Words to use
Name the skill in the words the program uses (short a, digraph sh, silent e). Say "secure", "developing", "needs support". Avoid grade levels and percentiles unless a formal assessment produced them; a tutoring log is not that.
How often
Monthly for weekly students, or at the end of a unit. A report every session is noise; a report every term is too late to matter.
In Literacy Trail
The progress report builds those four parts from the ratings you tapped, for any date range, and prints or saves as PDF. A student snapshot is the one-screen version for a quick conversation. Certificates print when a unit is finished.