Intervention Plan

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Intervention Plan

In order to fully understand and meet the needs of learners, teachers must be knowledgeable in using a variety of methods for assessment purposes. What is important is that teachers are able to understand and use assessment in a way that meets ‘best practice’. As students learn their knowledge expands and their skills develop, and for that reason teachers must use a combination of strategies to meet best practice in assessment. Not only must assessment follow learning in order to gauge a student’s performance for example, but there is also a place for using assessment before instruction in order make informed future instructional decisions.

In order to demonstrate best practice in assessment, an intervention plan has been developed around three Kindergarten students’ who need additional help to develop their phonemic awareness and letter- sound correspondences.

Students’ Profile

Three students’ from a local Kindergarten class are being utilised for the purpose of this assignment.

Student A - The youngest student of the group and his class having not yet turned five. This may be playing a factor in his falling behind in areas of learning. He is able to name most phonemes but is struggling to learn both consonant and vowel digraphs.

Student B - Generally a sound achiever and can identify most phonemes that have been introduced to this point. However, he is having trouble with several digraphs and blends and needs some assistance in these areas. He becomes easily frustrated when attempting blends.

Student C - Generally a sound achiever and can identify most phonemes and digraphs; he makes sound attempts at blending. Nevertheless, his reading should benefit from extra assistance to increase his a...

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...nitial and Final Consonant Blends / Clusters - Picture Charts and Words to Match. Retrieved from http://www.k-3teacherresources.com/consonant-blends.html

McMillan, J.H. (2007). Classroom Assessment: Principles and Practice for Effective Standards-Based Instruction (4th ed.). Boston, USA: Pearson

New South Wales Board of Studies. (1997). English K-6 Literacy- Interim Support Document for Students Experiencing Learning Difficulties. Retrieved from http://k6.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/files/english/k6literacy_int.pdf

New South Wales Board of Studies. (n.d). Outcomes for all K-6 learning areas. Retrieved from http://k6.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/

Westwood, P. (2007). Planning effective intervention for literacy problems. Retrieved from http://edocs.library.curtin.edu.au/eres_display.cgi?url=dc60265715.pdf©right=1

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