During our lesson today, I continued literacy assessments with Mary Clare through the tool of Reading Running Records. The assessment allowed me to observe her literacy behaviors, word accuracy, and comprehension of each text.
At this time, Mary Clare's Independent Reading Level is a C, Instructional Reading level is a D. These levels reflect capabilities of a child mid-end of year in kindergarten. Her comprehension of each text was above average, providing excellent knowledge of the story and including details/connections from real life.
Conventional reading comes easily to Mary Clare, but I would want to make sure she has a solid foundation with a good toolbox of strategies to help her along when texts become more difficult.
Areas we will be working on together for further instruction will be: blending/segmenting for common CVC words, self-correcting for errors that do not "sound right", and word work focused on long/short vowel sounds and patterns.
Assignment
none at this time!
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Mary Clare could easily move up to higher levels and be able to "read" it. But through these assessments, I'm detecting holes where she would truly benefit from explicit instruction before moving on. Conventional reading comes easy to her, but I would want to make sure she has a solid foundation with a good toolbox of strategies to help her along when texts become more difficult.
Today Mary Clare and I met for our first session! We spent some time getting to know each other and chatting, I conducted some Kindergarten early literacy assessments, and we enjoyed some read aloud books together as well! Mary Clare shared that she is excited about learning new languages (Mandarin and French specifically), and is very interested in Paris, France! She is such a motivated learner and thinker - stating during one of our assessments, "I love to think, thinking is fun!" I can see she enjoys challenges and puzzles!
Below are the results of the assessments conducted so far, as well as my anecdotal notes.
Oral Language score: 14 (mastery score 15)
Early Literacy Behaviors score: 9 (mastery score 10)
Letter Recognition Uppercase: 26/26
Letter Recognition Lowercase: 25/26
Beginning Sound Recognition: 18/19
Phonological Awareness (Blending) score: 3 (mastery score 10)
Phonological Awareness (Segmenting) score: 4 (mastery score 10)
High Frequency Words (first 25): 22/25
High Frequency Words (next 50): 31/50
*** Based on these early literacy assessments, Mary Clare displays signs of Kindergarten readiness, excelling in letter and word recognition.
Areas for future growth that we could work on together are Phonological Awareness (both blending and segmenting CVC words). This is a late Kindergarten skill, focusing on the mechanics of word-solving and word-writing.
In our next session, I intend to continue with a Reading Running Record assessment to determine Mary Clare's independent and instructional reading levels. This will provide data for me when making decisions about her future instruction. It will also help teachers and parents select appropriate reading materials for the student.
Assignment
none at this time!
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Lovely session, lovely child!!! Looking forward to seeing what else she can show me in literacy - and math as well! Looking into purchasing Fountas and Pinnell Reading Running Record kit for assessing Mary Clare and future readers in my class/sessions! Will send you (and Jeff) the information. Thanks so much!
