Week 7 Assignmnet #5


Assessing a student on these 4 areas really helped me put everything I read about into practice. The students had a very good grasp of print awareness. She was able to show me the front and back of the book as well as show me the names of the author and illustrator. She understood that the English language is made up of words and each word is made up of letters. When it came to phonics the student had a hard time matching sounds to groups of letters such as “th, ch, sh…” In terms of fluency the student is ok with words that are familiar to her, however when she hits a longer more difficult word she gets confused. Her reading is therefore choppy.

Helpful Activities:

Print awareness:

- Have students study the actual structure of the book such as the title, author, table of contents etc.

-Encourage preschool children to play with print. They can pretend to write a shopping list, construct a stop sign, write a letter, make a birthday card, etc

- read to students from "big books" to help children notice and learn to recognize words that occur frequently, such as a, the, is, was, and you.

Phonemic Awareness:

-Read a story to students but mix up letters of words so that they make no sense. Have the students pick out the nonsense words.

-Have students sound out words and use cards to show how many phonemes the word is made of.

Phonics:

-Give students a consonant blend and have them name as many objects as they can that begin with this blend.

-play a board game with students including blends to help them practice them.

Fluency:

-Choral Reading-having students read in unison with you and/or a group

-Tape assisted reading

-Partner reading

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Comments

  1. Shaindy LichtmanOctober 18, 2017 at 8:35 AM

    I really like your idea of playing a board game to practice blends. It's a great way to get students engaged in the lesson and do lots of reading practice, and they won't even notice it!

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    1. AnonymousOctober 22, 2017 at 2:17 PM

      Excellent assessment ideas! They all seem both exciting and effective.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 19, 2017 at 11:26 AM

    reading a story with nonsense words sounds like a fun idea!

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  3. UnknownOctober 21, 2017 at 11:58 AM

    Play with print is a great idea! Young students especially that like to play house and school can benefit greatly from making it a learning experience by writing shopping lists and other kind of writings.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 21, 2017 at 3:17 PM

    I also noticed in a few places that choral reading is a suggested activity to promote fluency. This is something which is a bit difficult for me to understand. I would think that if a child does not read fluently they would just fall behind in the group reading. They won't be able to follow quick enough, and would therefore give up, or pretend to follow along.

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  5. Chavee FinkOctober 22, 2017 at 4:48 AM

    I love tape-assisted reading. Many books come with cds attached, anf you can even find read-alouds on youtube!

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  6. UnknownOctober 22, 2017 at 12:57 PM

    Kidzphonics is a great website to help children develop their basic reading skills.

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