week 7 assignment 5

                I assessed one of my students who is in the beginning of kindergarten and is 5 years old. Since she is just beginning to read, her fluency isn’t so high, so that I let be.

                When I assessed her for print awareness, she was able to hold a book the right way, she knew what the front cover and the back cover were, and she knew what direction she should read from. My student was also able to identify the letters of the alphabet, although she could not tell me what the title and author of the book were. For this I would suggest that the parent or teacher read to her; there is also an online source- see below- where she can play and practice to pick up the things she didn’t know before.

                When I pronounced a word to my student she couldn’t retell all the sounds that she heard; for example when I said “book”, she said it starts with ‘b’ and ends in ‘k’, but she couldn’t tell me what the middle sound was. I would suggest several games for her to do, such as a silly sing song game where we change the first letter of each word, or like the kindergarten teacher in the video did with a lion where he left out a sound, and the children must tell you what sound is missing.

                In phonics, my student did well for her age and grade, she was able to sound out many of the words we learned, and with practice she will be able to build up her level in decoding words. I would suggest that she reads and practices sheets, as well as some online activities, see below.

                 Since my student just began to learn how to read, her pace is still slow. I would give her a story to read over and over again, so with time she can gain speed.

I would suggest that my student goes online to starsfall.com and there practice using the talking library for print awareness, “more phonics” to help her with understanding and manipulating syllables, and she read the short books for her fluency and practice with phonics.