week 7 assignment 5

I assessed a first grade student. She was able to do my print awareness activity with ease. She had trouble with pointing out some of the different punctuation points. I would create a short lesson, which focused on punctuation marks.  She had some trouble with the phonemic awareness activity. She wasn’t able to state the correct number of phonemes in all the words I read to her. For phonics awareness, I created a matching game with rhyming words. She was able to play the matching game with no mistakes. For fluency I calculated the words correct per minute. She read twenty words correctly for every error she made.

Helpful activities:

Print Awareness-

Give a student a storybook and ask him or her to show you:

•   The front of the book

•   The title of the book

•   Where you should begin reading

•   A letter

•   A word

•   The first word of a sentence

•   The last word of a sentence

•   The first and last word on a page

•   Punctuation marks

•   A capital letter

•   A lowercase letter

The back of the book

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/print-awareness-guidelines-instruction

Phonemic Awareness

Read a list of words and ask how many phonemes do you hear when I say the words?

http://www.readingrockets.org/teaching/reading101-course/modules/phonological-and-phonemic-awareness/phonological-and-phonemic

Phonics

I created a memory matching game with rhyming words and asked her to pair the matches, which were also rhymes.

Fluency

Give the student independent level texts that she can practice again and again. Time the student and calculate words-correct-per-minute regularly. The student can chart his or her own improvement.

http://www.readingrockets.org/helping/target/fluency