Dyslexic Reflection

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Reflection Through this experience I believe that I have gained a better understanding of emerging readers. I had the chance to complete these assessments with two dyslexic students. My initial expectation for these students is that they would be a little more of emergent readers than the average students their age. My students were very eager to answer the questions to the best of their abilities. They didn’t complain or want to give up at any point. The younger, more emergent, reader took a lot longer to get through the different sections. She took her time to think through the different questions. It was clear that she was easily distracted and frequently asked me to repeat the questions. The older student was eager to show off her …show more content…

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

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