For example, say a student has 4 pictures such as a snake, sock, cake, and a clock, in front of her. You can ask the student what each picture is and then ask her which pictures rhyme together. Not only is this an easy way to help students practice listening for the similar ending sounds, but this strategy is a great way to assess if the students are developing phonological awareness skills. Areas in which you much assess outside of rhyming include being able to clap out the number of syllables in a sentence or word as well as being able to recognize words with initial sounds for example bad and ball or tag and tan. Phonological awareness plays an important role in learning how to read, making it very important for students to be able to develop
Throughout this learning segment students will take part in various informal assessments that will help me monitor children’s progress. For example, for Learning Experience 1 students will be asked to look at artifacts and be asked to use their prior knowledge to think about what they represent. Then they will be read the book I am Jackie Robinson and asked to take part in a class discussion connecting the artifacts to Jackie Robinson and how it relates to their previous language arts story Luke Goes to Bat. Thus, these probes will serve as pre assessments. Students will also complete worksheets that require them to cut and paste the given objects or phrases and glue them in the correct chronological order. These worksheets will serve as formative
Progressing from initial phonemic awareness children begin to develop skills for word identification and in doing so expand their personal vocabulary while becoming more fluent readers. Using their knowledge of phonics, children can begin to decode unfamiliar words as they read and comprehend (Tompkins et al., 2014, p.36). For the most part the more proficient the children are as word decoders it seems the greater level of reading comprehension they hold (Gentaz, Sprenger-Charolles & Theurel, 2015, p.6) this again relates back to the initial instruction and development of phonics and phonemic awareness. In this beginning reading stage children will recognise high frequency words, they will practice phonetics when reading aloud and begin to
This is assessment is supposed to be given verbally by hearing what is being asked by the assessor. In and through this test, the students are not expected to be literate and know how to write or read exactly. In this assessment, they have provided up to four different tests to help in assessing the student 's progress for the end of each term to help see where the students are academically. Now, when giving this test, as the assessor we will ask the students to respond to certain sounds that letters make. It works on the sounds of the letters and not the letter itself. The assessment can take however long the student needs (PASA:Kindergarten, 2014, pp. 1-16). I find that these four different assessments would be very helpful to find out what the student is grasping when at school and how they are
The formative assessments that will be used throughout this lesson are direct observations, student participation, and collection of the Fairy Tale Maps. I will use the direct observations to elicit direct feedback, by looking at what the students are completing and then giving them feedback accordingly. I will walk around and see how the students are doing on the task they were asked to complete. Based on what I observe, I will be able to see which students are able to complete the task and which students are still having a difficult time with it. Based on what I see, I will continue with my lesson or stop the students, explain the material again, provide guided practice and then allow them to try their independent work. The way I will
Through conducting Connor’s Running record, I learned that he is developing well as a begging reader. I assessed him using a book The Wheels on the Bus that was above his grade level, and the book was considered an instructional level for him based on his 90% accuracy. He is a kindergartener, meaning that he has had little experience reading and has room for improvement, however he is developing into a successful reader. Connor still needs to improve his comprehension due to the fact that he rarely used meaning or structural clues to help decode unknown words. I also learned that Connor is very successful in regards to identifying sight words. Every time that he read a sight word, he seemed confident and enjoyed coming across a word that he knew. Repetition throughout a text is something that works well for Connor’s reading ability, because he is also good at recognizing words that he has already read. Connor is developing fairly quickly for a kindergartener and the Running Record allowed me to assess his strengths and weaknesses to guide further instruction for his continued reading development.
She was able to answer the questions before I finished reading them in some cases. One area she did struggle with was identifying the number of words in a sentence. This was the third phonological assessment we completed. I had a feeling that she was just confused on the directions because she was counting the syllables in the sentence, instead of the words. I tried to explain further that she just had to count the words, but after going over a couple of different examples, I realized that she had some misunderstanding between syllables and words. I continued with the rest of the phonological assessment sections because I wasn’t sure if she was just confused on the directions or lacked this skill completely. After we finished the assessments, I completed the mini lesson “Word Count” with her. During the mini lesson, I learned that this student was very confused with the difference in hearing a syllable versus hearing an entire word. If I had more time with this child I think that I would try writing out different sentences and asking her how many words were in each sentence after she read them aloud. Then I would ask her to tell me how many syllables she had read. I think that this would help gain a better
Phonological awareness is the ability to identity and manipulate the sounds of language. As Hill (2006) states the aspects of language comprise intonation, stress and timing, syllables and phonemes. In order to develop children’s phonological awareness, nursery rhymes, jingles and songs are effective as the words have emphasis and are repetitive, which enable children to recognise and enact with rhyme, alliteration, words and sounds that are part of their spoken language.
Hugh W. Catts presented a study on the connection between speech-language impairments and reading disabilities. Participants in the study included 56 children with speech-language impairments (S-LI) and 30 children who did not have speech-language impairments. The participants in the S-LI group received a speech-language evaluation which included a battery of standardized speech-language tests. Participants in the study were given an evaluation in the spring of their kindergarten year. The evaluation testing included material on receptive language, expressive language, articulation, and nonverbal abilities. The study cited that previous research has shown a connection between phonological awareness and early reading success. Catts also referred
Adriel is 6 years old, of Cuban background whose primary language is Spanish. This is the students second time in kindergarten. Adriel was not very excited to be doing this test, as soon as I told him that he would be reading straight from my book he got excited, as he believed he was reading at a much higher level.