CRLA Reading Profile Descriptions
CRLA Reading Profile Descriptions
Emerging Readers are at the very basic level of reading development. This profile
has two sublevels—Emergent Low and Emergent High. Readers in the Emergent-
Low level only gained the bare minimum skills from the previous grade level. They
will benefit from a lot of direct instruction on skills expected from the previous
and current grade levels. Meanwhile, readers in Emergent-High have met the
basic reading skills from the previous grade level but have not mastered
automaticity and fluency, and have limited reading comprehension of texts at the
current grade level.
Emergent-Low
Grade 1: Learner knows only a few letters (0-6 letters) and has very little to
moderate (0-80%) evidence of phonological awareness when doing rhyming tasks,
can barely blend letter sounds together, and is struggling to read even simple
words
3: Learner does not know the sound of some letters OR learner might be
reading per letter sound or syllables with limited word recognition of
words at Grade 3 or even at lower levels
Emergent-High
Grade 1: Learner knows 80% or more of the letters, has firm phonological
awareness, and can decode words from the previous grade level. Learners
might also struggle to decode words (low automaticity) at the current
grade level and need to improve fluency and recall details from a story just
read.
Grade 2: Learner can decode 80% or more of the words from the previous
grade level and is ready for the introduction of words from the current
grade level. Learners struggle to decode words at current grade level (low
automaticity) and need to improve fluency and recall details from a story
just read.
Grade 3: Learner can decode 80% or more of the words from the previous
grade level and is ready for the introduction of words from the current
grade level. Learners struggle to decode words at their current grade level
(low automaticity) and need to improve recalling details from a story just
read.
Readers who are reading at Grade Level have a firm grasp of letter knowledge,
phonological awareness, and strong decoding skills at the current grade level. Learners
can benefit from reading texts from a variety of themes and styles in L1 and L2. They
can easily shift from reading passages in L1 and l2 and can begin learning how to read in
L3.