Second Language Observation Paper

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Student A is a nine-year-old healthy female in the third grade. She was born in the Dominican Republic and migrated to Miami, Florida as a toddler. The child is experiencing difficulties in all content areas and demonstrates poor memory skills. She is receiving the intervention pull out service and is allocated in the Response To Intervention Tier II process. The student receives additional services for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) level III. Student A struggles only in academic areas and presents no behavioral issues. The student admits she only reads for academic purposes. While she is in school, she enjoys reading fantasy genre books.
Student A came willingly to the sitting and seemed relaxed. The assessor advised the
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The Student A will read the text twice; once silently and then aloud. As Student A reads silently, she will highlight the sight words and when she reads aloud, she will underline them.

The teacher organizes a game where Student A reads a short text aloud and when she comes across a word wall sight word, she claps.

Close Passage. The teacher can create short texts and leave a blank space where Student A is to allocate word wall sight words.

Strategy: Shared Reading

Activities

Pair the Student A with a fluent English speaking student. Have the two students read aloud short passages to each other. Then instruct the fluent reader to model and use intonations as much as possible.

Extended: Pair Student A with a fluent English speaking student. Assign the student character's roles in a short passage. Have each student read the character's part aloud and act out what the scenes.

Extended: Pair Student A with a fluent English speaking student. Have the students read aloud a short story to each other and then brainstorm to re-write the ending. The students will re-read the new story to each other and act out the new endings.

Strategy: Increasing Fluency

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