Week 7 Assignment 5


This week I assessed Riki, a 8-year-old girl who was more than glad to show me what she knows. We went through 4 vital components of being literate; print awareness, phonemic awareness, phonics and fluency.

Print Awareness- In this area, Riki scored amazingly well. She pointed out the front and back of the book I presented to her. She also knew the title, author and illustrator. She started the sentence at the right place and also knew where a sentence ended. This proved to me that she has the basic skills needed to read.



Phonemic Awareness- when assessing Rikki on this area I presented Riki with a list of words. I asked Rikki to identify single sounds words and she was able to do so perfectly. She was also able to pick out one word that doesn’t fit from a group of single sounding words. She was also able to combine separate sounds of a word to say a word. This made me confident that she quite aware in this area.



Phonics: To test Riki on her phonics skills I used an assessment from reading rockets. I also tried testing Rikki by seeing if she can combine letters to change the sound of a word. Rikki was having a hard time with that and that made me sure that she would benefit from phonics practice.



Fluency: I used a 2nd grade running record to test Rikki’s fluency. I must say that she surprised me since I had to try a harder level book than the one I pulled out originally. She scored 94% on accuracy making this book on her instructional level. Her error rate was 1:10 and she remembered to self correct 1:2, proving that she knows to correct mistakes. I think that repetition in books would be good for Rikki as well as decoding strategies. I also feel that practicing books that he can read will improve her fluency and that a motivational contest must be put in place so that she will want to read.





Suggested Resources:

https://www.kizphonics.com/phonics-readers/

www.readingrockets.org/article/phonics-instruction

https://www.education.com/games/phonological-awareness/?msclkid=ae28e81f77f41ae20dc6b3cdd935d9d6&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Bing_Search_USA%3AGames_ELA_BMM&utm_term=%2Bphonics%20%2Bgames&utm_content=Phonics%20Games

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  1. Dr. Saleh-JohnsonOctober 31, 2018 at 10:41 AM

    Nice job with your assessment and providing resources which will assist with reading development.

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