SDQA Test-Taker

Assessment Analysis
Test-Taker
The name of the child that the San Diego Quick Assessment (SDQA) was conducted on is Benjamin who is a friend’s brother. Benjamin is eight years old and is in the second grade in a general education classroom. Benjamin is currently attending Sheridan Hills Elementary school. According to the Benjamin’s mother, Benjamin was diagnosed with a writing and reading disability which is the reason I thought Benjamin would be an appropriate candidate for this assessment. Benjamin’s mother also mentioned that Benjamin is mostly struggling in reading and often dislikes completing his homework, which causes him to struggle in school even more.
Assessment
The SDQA is an assessment often used in order to major an individual’s

One strategy that I recommend for reading interventions in the school setting is partner reading. During partner reading, students read together and take turns reading the text so that one student reads and the other follows and vice versa. The teacher could pair the struggling reader with a high-level reader which will benefit the struggling reader as they follow the high-level reader. Another strategy that I recommend for the school setting is called listening centers. During listening centers, the reader will read along to a text at their instructional level while the text is being read aloud to them by the teacher or a tape. Both of those strategies will model reading to the struggling reader and help them improve their fluency and reading skills (Tompkins, 2014). Furthermore, working on the child’s reading abilities is crucial in the home setting in order to encourage reading outside of school. A reading strategy that parents could use is read aloud. Parents could read aloud to their children every night in order to model fluency. In the case the parents are busy or unable to read to the child daily, they could simply use audiobooks application such as Audible that is available in most mobile devices that will read books aloud to the