Goal #1: Automatic Sight Word Identification Addison needs to develop automaticity in identifying sight words. The data collected indicates several of her miscues were high frequency words. Automatic sight word identification is a necessary skill for Addison to improve her reading accuracy and fluency. Sight word identification is critical in reading development. The sight words represent high-frequency words and are difficult to sound out or to illustrate. Goal #2: Instruction in word-identification strategies Addison needs to develop word identification strategies to improve her reading. The data collected indicated that Addison’s word analysis skills were not effective. Addison consistently had difficulties with the vowels and the …show more content…
Addison continues to make progress in achieving the stars, indicating progress in automatic sight word recognition through the intervention Super Speed 1000. Beginning with no stars, she currently has obtained four stars. Addison was highly motivated when working on the Nifty, Thrifty, Fifty Word List. Addison achieved a lot of success, using the approach to solve multisyllabic words. She often overachieved the requirement of the intervention. She was required to find at least one word within a word and make one new word adding a new beginning or ending. However, she was successful in identifying and making several words. Aimsweb was utilized to determine Addison’s progress for fluency. The median score of the last three data points on Addison’s Aimsweb graph were considered to determine a benchmark score. Prior to the tutoring sessions, Addison was reading a median of 109 words per minute on a third grade probe. Midway through the tutoring sessions she scored 119 and 123 correct words per minutes respectively. Addison read 126 cwpm on her final Aimsweb assessment. In addition, data was charted on a fluency graph to indicate the growth she made on each six minute fluency passage. On the first passage, Rosa Parks: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, Addison increased her words per minute from 109 correct words per minute to 160 correct words per minute. The second passage: Mars-the Red Planet, she increased her cwpm from 90 to 113 correct words per minute. Addison’s final 6 minute fluency passage (Garter Snake) she improved from 93 cwpm to 143 correct words per
Hunter was assessed using a running records assessment. This type of assessment is done with the student reading a book out loud to the instructor while the instructor follows along on a sheet to mark off any mistakes made. Hunter read confidently for the most part, only stumbling over a few words. He substituted the word “individual” for “instinctual” and, at first, said “have” instead of “live”, but this error he quickly corrected and was able to continue with the reading without a problem. The results of the running record assessment done on Hunter show that he is a very proficient reader. He only made a total of two mistakes and, of these two, one was self-corrected. Hunter’s accuracy rate is 99.5%,
Torgesen (1998) claims that the top reasons students have difficulties with reading is because they have issues correlating letters and sounds in words, or phonological awareness. Many students also have trouble memorizing sight words and many also have an
First, Catalina was asked to read a list of nonsense words aloud as quickly as possible during two 15 second trials (Decoding Fluency). She performed within the below average range. She also performed within the below average range when she was asked to read a list of words aloud as quickly as possible during two 15 second trials (Word Recognition Fluency). Catalina appears to demonstrate below average word reading and decoding skills.
As students read, the teacher makes notes focusing on the words they struggle with. The teacher indicates which words the student has substituted, repeated, mispronounced, or doesn’t know. These words are called miscues. After the miscues are marked they are classified. “Only the words that students mispronounce or substitute can be analyzed; repetitions and omissions aren’t calculated’ (Tompkins p.85). Once the miscues have been evaluated, the miscue analysis will indicate which cues the reader over relies on and which they need to further develop. Running Records also helps calculate the percentage of miscues to determine whether or not the book is at the students reading level. The goal is to give students appropriate books for their reading levels. After the running record and miscue analysis, the teacher can analyze this information to introduce personalized strategies and lessons to develop a more fluent
The Wilson Language program has a precise structure to function as an intervention and is able to assist second through twelfth grade struggling readers to learn the construction of words by directly instructing students to decode and encode confidently. Natalie Hill, a Wilson Language Program assessor, said, ‘“There is a frequent change of pace, students will see as well as hear, multiple opportunities for students to be engaged and participate in activities, extensive controlled text methods and materials to “see” critical word components, like vowels, digraphs, etc., stop “guessing habit”, reading and spelling taught simultaneously, hands on, multisensory methods, no glossy pictures”’ (Hi...
Lila is a second grade student who participated in a Primary Spelling Inventory and the reflection of her results are as follows. After her spelling inventory was finalized I noted that the student spelled ten of the twenty-six words correctly giving her a power score of 10/26. Most of the words that she mastered was in the Late emergent and early of Letter Name Alphabetic stage. I also noted that Lila accomplished 36 features out of 56 total features during her spelling inventory. Based on the results of the Primary Spelling Inventory the orthographic features that Lila recognizes are the consonants, short vowel, blends, and is familiar with diagraphs. Although she mastered blends which falls in the late Letter Name-Alphabetic stage she failed to master diagraphs which is the middle stage.
Six principles for early reading instruction by Bonnie Grossen will be strongly enforced. It includes Phonemic awareness, each letter-Phonemic relationship explicitly, high regular letter-sound relationship systematically, showing exactly how to sound out words, connected decodable text to practice the letter phonemic relationships and using interesting stories to develop language comprehension. Double deficit hypothesis which focuses on phonological awareness and rapid naming speed.
Both groups placed in the early stage level of the groups. These students demonstrated difficulty with long vowel patters and ed ending words. I decided to administer the elementary
In this time, it has become highly regarded by many teachers and administrators. The program uses a site word approach to teach emergent reading skills. The program uses a carefully sequenced, highly repetitive word recognition method combined with errorless learning. This approach eliminates incorrect responses and helps students view themselves as readers. The Edmark Reading Program ensures success to students of all ages who have not yet mastered beginning reading. This program is recommended for students with developmental disabilities or Autism, students with learning disabilities, Title 1 students, ESL students, preschool and kindergarten students who lack vocabulary development and non-readers who struggle with phonics. The programs
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These skills are an important core separating normal and disabled readers. According to Hill (2006, p.134), phonemic awareness is a skill that focus’ on the small units of sound that affect meaning in words. For example, the following phoneme has three syllables, /c/, /a/ and /n/. These letters make three different small units of sound that can impact the meaning of words. Seely Flint, Kitson and Lowe (2014, p. 191), note that even the Australian Curriculum recognises the importance of phonemic awareness in the Foundation year, due to the ‘sound and knowledge’ sub-strand. This sub strand recognises syllables, rhymes and sound (phonemes) in spoken language. Rich discussions about topics of interest to children as well as putting attention to the sounds of language can help encourage phonemic awareness as well as improve students vocabulary and comprehension development. It is important to make awareness of phonemes engaging and interesting in preschool and in the early years so children can learn these skills early and become successful
In the K class that I will be using Interactive Read Aloud, I will be specifically instructing those children (6 children - 2 boys, 4 girls - ages 5-7) with literacy skills in letter identification, alphabetic principle and sight word recognition and production. Given their needs (as a group), my instructional goals in reading instruction will include identifying letter names, identifying consonant and short vowel sounds, and in...