Reading level vs comprehension level

[chartingplaces]

Dd was free reading last year but this year she's been put down several reading levels due to not being able to do comprehension well year 2)

If she reads to me she can read most children's book with expression and acknowledges the grammar etc and if I ask her questions she understands what she has read. If I give her a comprehension example and ask her to read questions and write them down she's pretty bad to be fair.

Should she therefore be dropped on her reading level until she catches up on her written comprehension? The books she's now been put on are very easy for her to read and she's now monotonously going through them and it's obvious she's losing the enjoyment for books through this, I continue to free read our own books though.
Thanks and also if anyone might tell me if I should stop free reading as well if she's supposed to be a lower level at school as I am quite confused by it all.

Is it the accelerated reading system? None of my children do well on that. Both the boys went down several levels between year 3&4. With DS1 I just became bored of asking the teachers to assess him themselves and said we weren’t doing it.
When the save thing happened with DS2, they did re-assess DS2 themselves and with the quizzes - but he just couldn’t get the hang of them, although he could explain to the teacher what the story was about. So they agreed with me that he didn’t do the quizzes.
DD is less academic and can stay at her school until 18, so I was happier to just let her coast on the system this year. Her reading hasn’t improved though, so I told them last term that we’re not doing it anymore and we just read books that I chose at home. We’ll try the accelerated reading again next academic year.

You could choose not to do it? I hadn't considered maybe we can choose not to? Perhaps dd isn't academic I don't seem to be keeping up with all the different systems around.
Thanks for your reply.

Charting - both my boys have CATs in the 135+ region.
I found the easier way around it was to insist on the teacher assessing them as "I have more confidence in a teacher assessment that a standardised computer one". When they declined, was when I said that - we would just read books at home.

I feel I've been a bit negative in this thread about accelerated reading as it really has helped a lot of children in the boys school who hated it.

I think the accelerated reading programme is great for those children who don't enjoy reading as they're more likely to chose things that they enjoy. Our house is full of books and my children struggle to choose things that are within their interest level.