Jaiden's Assessment

First here is some information the student this report is about. The child I used for my assessments is my little cousin. My little cousin’s name is Jaiden, who turned six in April. Jaiden has just recent entered kindergarten this past fall. He has some minor behavioral problems. I received his parents’ permission. The assessments I administered were The Print Awareness, The Phonological Awareness, The Letter Recognition, and The Listening Comprehension Assessment.
Next, these are some observations that were made about the student. First, the student did understand the instructions and followed my directions, but he had a few difficulties. He had a few behavioral issues during the assessment. The behavior issues that my student had were that …show more content…
On this mastery test, Jaiden got 77 words correct and scored on a strategic level. Two of his strengths were consonants sounds and long vowel sounds. An addition, one of his weaknesses was lowercase letter names. He had issues with the letters X, W, and Q. Teachers can display an alphabet chart and talk about letters in other contexts, making sure the children can see that a letter is different from a word. The students’ performance in the listening comprehension assessment was great. He did not have any weaknesses. He was able to answer each question correctly. The pictures help as a valuable visual aid, which also benefits his comprehension. An instructional strategy to encourage picture would be taking about the children`s own writing and drawings to help …show more content…
He is six years old, and just started kindergarten. The assessment I administered were The Print Awareness, The Letter Recognition, The Phonological Awareness, and The Listening Comprehension Assessment. He had a follow instructions and understood them but had problem sitting sit and getting distracted easy. In the Print Awareness assessment some of his strengths were punctuation and concepts of letters. One weakness he had was with directionality concepts. One thing a parent could do to prevent this is to have your child follow along with his/her finger as you read a story. In the Phonological Awareness assessment syllable blending and pronouncing and phoneme alliteration and discrimination were some of his strengths. While on the other hand some of his weaknesses were syllable segmenting and counting, phoneme substitution, phoneme deletion, and phoneme isolation of medial sounds. Another strategy that could be helpful is counting the words in a line of print or clap for each word spoken to help develop the children`s concept of word. For Letter Recognition assessment his strengths were consonants sounds and long vowel sounds. An addition, one of his weaknesses was lowercase letter names. Make available capital letters and lowercase letters of the alphabet for children to use and manipulate. The students’ performance in the listening comprehension assessment was great. He did not have any