The Standards-Based Report Card Committee has met twice over the past few weeks to discuss the reporting categories related to reading that will appear on future standards-based report cards. The National Reading Panel has identified phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development, fluency and comprehension as the most important reading skills. These skills are found in the PA Academic Standards for Reading, Writing, Speaking & Listening in Standards 1.1, 1.2 & 1.3. The committee is continuing to work on narrowing down the reporting categories within reading to six categories. Once this is accomplished, the committee will focus its efforts on the math reporting categories.