Walk In The Fall And The First Snow Analysis

Carmen is in second-grade student, she is currently having challenges reading and is performing at a kindergarten reading level. When starting the assessment with Carmen, based on previous assessments, I knew her reading level was below second-grade reading level. Her reading over assessment has seen improvement and she is able to apply skills she has learned. Carmen was able to read Walk in the Fall and The First Snow. She demonstrated improvement in her reading based on the reading techniques she implemented while reading. The level of independent/instructional reading for Carmen was Walk in the Fall, because she was able to read the passage without any challenges and only read two words incorrectly. Her current level of instructional/frustration was reading the second passage The First Snow. The passage was more challenging for Carmen to read, her reading was choppy, …show more content…
The first area to begin helping Carmen is to return to her recognizing high-frequency words, especially the 24 words that are at the kindergarten level. Tompkins (***), identifies the type of words that students are constantly reading are high-frequency words (pp. 184- 185). When reading high-frequency words Carmen did have challenges with reading two words because she either read the word incorrectly or she confused words. Reviewing high-frequency words in a minilesson will help Carmen identify the words she read incorrectly. Starting the high-frequency words at the kindergarten level will allow her to see the words she is reading incorrectly of confusing. Another helpful reading method to help Carmen improve her reading is by going over her vowels sounds. Carmen did have challenges when reading “ran” and read it as “run”. She confused the /a/ and /u/ sound and having a mini lesson going over long and short vowel sound. The mini lesson will help Carmen say the correct sound of the