LEZZA M. MERRILL

 

Syntheses of information:

 

Student: Ashley

Grade:5th

School: The Learning Academy

 

Identify factors impeding the student’s reading development in each of the reading components:

 

• Phonological awareness, Phonics, Oral Language, Fluency, Vocabulary, and  Comprehension: 

 

Tension prevents her from reaching full potentional in these areas, though she is at or above grade level in most areas.

 

• What language difficulties does the student have?

 

Spelling, r controlled words, word identificitation and fluency

 

• Overall, how does this student’s reading acquisition compare to other students his/her age? (What should he/she be doing at this level?)

 

        Compared to other students: Above Average

                     This level: Ashley should be reading about 120 words per minute. She reads fairly well but has not met her goal of 120 yet. She reads at a 6th grade level. 

 

• What additional assessments will be completed on this student? Give the reason for the assessment? (What will the information provide?)

 

Assessments Given:

Woodcock Reading Purpose

Reason:

define their decoding, listening, fluency and comprehension skills

 

Assessments to be Given:

Another Woodcock Reading Test may be administered to see progress. 

Reason:

define their decoding, listening, fluency and comprehension skills

 

Other Assessments:

Ashley will be given a book to read. Every week she will read a few pages to one chapter. During the reading, I will focus on fluency, word recognition, and sounds in words, including ou,oi,ow,oy and r-controlled words.

 

• What is the initial plan for remediation for this student?  Be detailed – Use the 5 Ws and 1H as a framework, and keep in mind the interests of the student.

 

Who: Ashley and I

What: Oi, Ou, Oy, Ow sounds, R-controlled sounds, Fluency of reading and comprehending. 

Where: Work on words given to her randomly, work of sight words off of the Fry list, work on reading a story, and finding words from the story.

When: Every wednesday 

Why: Though Ashley is above average in most reading components, she lacks in word recognition and word rate for fluency.

How: I will be working with Ashely on building sight word vocabulary, as well as  sounds, and fluency. 

 

Things to work on:

 

--ee,ea, ai, ay, oa, ow, ou, igh (Review) 

--oi,ou,ow,oy

--Irregular words

--CVC words

--Vowel R

--Reading of nonsense words

-- OW- description and uses

-- Sight words-- average (fry words) maybe time her, challenge level one-- 20 words

-- listening comprehension 95 %

-- word attack/ phonics above average

--listening: above average

--comprehension of words: average

--passage comprehension above average

 

--word identification

--fluency