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How to read your child's lesson history page

The Lesson History page gives you a clear, high-level view of what your child has been working on in Hoot lessons, where they are in their reading development, and how their skills have progressed over time. 

Getting Started

To access your child's Lesson History page, go to your parent profile in the Hoot App. From the main menu, select Lesson History.

Parent Profile | Lesson History Page

When you first land on the lesson history page, you'll begin by selecting the child profile you would like to view lesson history for. This is only applicable if you have more than one child registered for Hoot.

Select a Student

Once selected, this page will summarize your child's:

  • lesson attendance,

  • instructional focus areas,

  • progress across Hoot’s Scope & Sequence,

  • and recent assessment results.

If you ever want more detail about how Hoot teaches reading or you child's progress, you can contact us at families@hootreading.com.

 

Attendance: Understanding Lesson Activity

Attendance


The Attendance section gives helpful context about how much literacy instruction your child has received through Hoot. You'll see:

  • Lessons Completed – the number of lessons your child has completed with a Hoot teacher

  • Minutes of Instruction – total instructional time your child has had with a Hoot teacher

  • Books Read in Lessons – how many books have been used for instruction in your child's lessons

Note: Attendance data reflects lessons completed since September 1, 2024.

 

Where Your Child Is in their Reading Journey

Word Reading

At the top of the Word Reading section, you’ll see a visual overview of Hoot’s Scope and Sequence. This is the visual progression of word reading (or phonics) skills taught at Hoot, grouped into three instructional focus areas:

  • Pre-Word Reading (typically mastered by the end of Kindergarten)

  • Early Word Reading (typically mastered by the end of Grade 1)

  • Complex Word Reading (typically mastered by the end of Grade 2)

These grade levels are approximate reference points, not expectations. Hoot instruction is always based on a child's unique skills, not age or grade.

Hoot Scope & Sequence

Understanding the Unit Tables

Early Word Reading Table

Within each of Hoot's instructional focus area, you’ll see a table that includes:

  • Units – the specific reading skills

  • Sample Words or Tasks – examples of what that skill looks like

  • Lessons Focused on Unit – how many completed lessons focused on this skill

  • Books Used for Unit – how much books have been used for instruction to support development in a particular skill area

These counts provide context, not a checklist. Some skills naturally require more lessons and books than others.

Student Progress Indicators

The final columns show your child’s current instructional status for each unit, based on their Hoot Reading Assessment results:

  • ⬜ Grey (Not Started)
    The skill has not been introduced yet.

  • 🟧 Orange (Review or Instruction Required)
    Your child requires more review or instruction on this skill before they master it. This could indicate a unit is currently being worked on or that the unit has yet to be worked on, and will be a focus in the future.

  • 🟩 Green (Mastered / Advanced Beyond)
    Your child has demonstrated a strong understanding and has either advanced beyond this skill, without specific assessment, or they have been assessed and have shown mastery of the skill.

Why Some Sections Are Open and Others Are Closed

When you first land on this page, you may notice that only some sections are open, while others default to closed. To keep focus on what requires instruction now, only the instructional focus areas that currently require instruction or review are expanded by default. Fully mastered areas or areas that haven't been started remain collapsed to keep the page focused and easy to read.

 

Text Reading

Text Reading focuses on how your child reads connected text, rather than individual words.

Text reading

Comprehension

At Hoot Reading, Comprehension is something is continuously developed at every stage of learning development and therefore is always shown as 🟧  Instruction Required.

  • While students are still developing word reading skills, teachers focus on language comprehension (listening, discussion, understanding meaning).

  • Once students have mastered word reading, comprehension instruction shifts to reading comprehension, where the student works on their understanding of the text from reading it themselves.

Fluency

Fluency is something practiced throughout word reading units, but intentional fluency instruction only begins once a student has mastered word reading skills.

Before fluency instruction has started, this row will be shown as ⬜ Not Started.

Once instruction has begun, you’ll see:

  • Information about the Level of the book used to assess your child's fluency
    Note: students are always assessed on a book at their grade level. Books get increasingly more complex from assessment to assessment.

  • Their assessed Words Correctly Read Per Minute (WCPM) score

  • The calculated Accuracy Rate of their reading of the book they were assessed on.

If these fields are blank, it simply means your child isn’t at that stage yet.

 

Assessment History

The final section shows your child’s full chronological assessment history.

Assessment columns show data from your child's diagnostic and summative Hoot Reading Assessments.

  • Only units that were assessed during a given assessment window will show an instruction indicator (Mastered, Review Required, Instruction Required).  

  • A hyphen (–) means the student has advanced beyond the unit or it was previously mastered and therefore not re-attempted on the assessment, or the unit has not yet been started.

Progress Monitoring columns show data from progress check ins.

  • Only units that have been regularly worked on in lessons will be assessed on a progress monitoring check in. Those units that were assessed will be shown with an instruction indicator (Mastered, Review Required, Instruction Required). 
  • All other units are shown with a hyphen (–), indicating they were not part of that progress monitoring check in.

Assessent History

💡 Remember!

Reading development is not linear. Children may:

  • move quickly through some skills,

  • spend more time revisiting others,

  • and work across different areas at the same time.

The Lesson History page is meant to give you clarity and confidence in what your child is working on in their Hoot lessons, not pressure. If you ever have questions about what you see on the lesson history page, we’re always happy to help.

📩 families@hootreading.com