On-Grade-Level Literacy Indicators for Second Grade Core Instruction Indicators: Student must demonstrate at
least 3 out of the 4 indicators from the list below.
70% or higher overall average on Harcourt Weekly Tests for current grading period
70% or higher overall average on Harcourt Theme Tests for current grading period
70% or higher overall average of Reading Assignments for current grading period
Student is in the average or above average small group for differentiated instruction and using the
corresponding leveled readers and practice materials.
High Frequency/ Sight Word Knowledge Indicators: Students’ knowledge of high frequency words will be
assessed using the list of high frequency words in Harcourt Storytown lessons.
1st nine weeks: 70% of the high frequency words in lessons taught during the first nine weeks
2nd nine weeks: 70% of the high frequency words in lessons taught during the first and second
nine weeks
3rd nine weeks: 70% of the high frequency words in lessons taught during the first, second, and
third nine weeks
4th nine weeks: 70% of all high frequency words in 2nd grade Storytown.
Fluency Indicator: Number of WCPM is > 50th percentile as measured using fluency passages from Harcourt.
Passage selected should be from the theme(s) taught during current grading period.
o 1st nine weeks – use Fall WCPM target of 51 words per minute correct
o 2nd nine weeks – use Winter WCPM target of 72 words per minute correct
o 3rd nine weeks – use Winter WCPM target of 72 words per minute correct
o 4th nine weeks – use Spring WCPM target of 89 words per minute correct
FAIR Instructional Indicators: Student’s PRS score must be > 85% OR they must meet the TDI expectations for the
current nine weeks. Scores may come from TDI tasks administered during the 3 progress monitoring periods or
from tasks administered as on-going progressing monitoring once remediation and instruction have occurred.
TDI Phonics and Phonemic Awareness Tasks
o 1st nine weeks - Meets Expectations for at least the first 3 TDI FAIR Tasks
Phoneme Deletion - Initial
Phoneme Deletion – Final
Word Building - Consonants
o 2nd nine weeks – Meets Expectations for at least the first 4 TDI FAIR Tasks
Phoneme Deletion - Initial
Phoneme Deletion - Final
Word Building Consonants
Word Building – CVC and CVCe
o 3rd nine weeks – Meets Expectations for at least the first 5 TDI FAIR Tasks
Phoneme Deletion - Initial
Phoneme Deletion - Final
Word Building - Consonants
Word Building – CVC and CVCe
Word Building – Blends/Vowels
o 4th nine weeks- Meets Expectations for all 6 FAIR TDI Tasks
Phoneme Deletion – Initial
Phoneme Deletion – Final
Word Building – Consonants
Word Building – CVC and CVCe
Word Building – Blends/Vowels
Multisyllabic Word Reading