Ania's Written Language Skills Essay

Wechsler Individual Achievement Written Expression assessments were administered to assess Ania's written language skills. Written language skills, as measured by this assessment, appear to indicate that her skills fall below peer expectancy. The Spelling subtest assesses the ability to write dictated letters, letter combinations and words. The Sentence Composition subtest contains two components, Sentence Combining and Sentence Building. Both portions measure sentence formulation skills and written syntactic maturity, which includes morphology, grammar, syntax, semantics, and mechanics.

Although Ania’s scores were lower than same age peers, she did show strength within the given subtests. When spelling Ania does show strength with using …show more content…
Ania’s strengths in this subtest showed that she was able to show that she understands that each sentence begins with a capital letter and ended every sentence with correct punctuation. Ania showed the ability to be able to write and spell high-frequency words. Ania was able to spell words such as, the, you, we, go, to, and will. Ania was able to spell and write CVC words, car, run, cat and dog. Ania had difficulties with using the targeted word in the sentence. Ania had better success with writing a cohesive sentence in the prior subtest because the sentences were presented to her and helped her with sentence starters. The sentence building required Ania to use a targeted word in a sentence with no prompting. This was a difficult task for Ania to complete. In class, Ania benefits from talking out loud on how to convey her thoughts into a complete sentence before beginning a sentence. Also, Ania benefits from echoing questions into sentence starts to help organize her ideas and written work into a complete