Week 7: Assignment 5

Student info: 1^st grade male, reading at a 1^st grade level.

*all assessments used were from the module on readingrockets

Print awareness: For the print awareness assessment, I followed the guidelines from the online module on readingrockets.org. I had the student locate the front, back, and title of the book. The student was able to identify all. I then asked the student to identify where you should start reading, a letter, a word, the first word of a sentence, the last word of a sentence, punctuation marks, a capital letter and a lowercase letter. Again, the student was able to identify all that I asked for. I asked the student what different words mean (example, what does a wet floor sign mean or is used for) and the student was able to tell me that different types of writing are used for different things (serve different purposes). From this assessment, I have gathered that the child has a very good idea of print awareness.

Phonological awareness: For this assessment, I worked on counting words in a sentence and counting and segmenting syllables with the same student. With the use of a pointer, the student counted the words in show sentences. We started with sentences 2-5 words in length and worked up to 8 word sentences. He was able to do this without much difficulty at all. Counting syllables was the next step, and this was about the level where he wasn’t able to do this independently, so I did not move onto segmenting syllables. I found activities on pbs kids that work on phonemic awareness via interactive games. I thought this would be a good site for the student to visit to help with blending, etc. http://pbskids.org/island/preview/games-phonemicawareness.html

Phonics: For this section, I first worked with the student on identifying letters on the page, and matching them with the sound they make. He was able to do this without a problem. Next, I gave him a list of beginning sounds like sh, ch, th, wh, and ck. He was able to read the words matching the correct sound. Next, I worked on helping him with blending the beginning sounds he already knew to read unknown words (ex; shark). At this stage, he needed assistance. I found a site to help with phonics overall. https://www.kizphonics.com/materials/phonics-games/

Fluency: For fluency assessment, I used the reading rockets finding a fluency score. Out of 100 words in one minute, the student read 55 words. There were 7 errors which put him at 55 wpm and 48 wcpm. I’m not sure that I chose the best passage for him, and I think by the end of all the assessments he was beginning to get tired and lose interest in what we were doing, so that could have played a part in his assessment results. I searched online for a website that would provide interactive games to help with fluency and came up with a class website that not only provides links to activities for fluency, but other aspects of phonological awareness as well. This site led me to starfall.com where I found a section on games to help with fluency. http://www.starfall.com/n/level-b/index/play.htm?f