DIBELS Assessment Of My Case Study

My case study student is a second grader who loves mystery books, video games and playing with friends. My first day in the classroom before being assigned my case study student, I almost immediately bonded with my case study student over the stories of Goosebumps, after that he constantly asked me to sit with him during lunch and asked me for help. I would consider him to have a limited internal dialogue because he often says whatever is on his mind, but it frequently turns out hilarious and gives his audience of peers a good chuckle. The literacy portion each day is centered around the daily five and in one station they walk to reading. The students work on a new high frequency word where they have to an antonym, synonym, a rhyme and write …show more content…
I know that my case study student struggles with fluency because he struggles with accuracy, speed, and expression. Most of his struggle in oral fluency comes from his insecurity when coming across words he doesn’t know. When doing my DIBELS assessment I noticed how my student struggled with his words per minute was around 51 and his correct words per minute 45. Throughout the DIBELS assessment my student read in a very one note way with no major expression. I was surprised though that his difficulty in reading the story didn’t affect his ability in being able to retell me the story through illustrations and verbal retell. During the assessment when my student came across a word he didn’t know, he’d often times skip it or mumble passed it. I felt like if gaining his confidence and teaching him strategies he would become a more confident oral fluent reader. I also did several informal assessments while observing him in the classroom through the read next to assignment, listening to him read aloud in class, and looking at his coursework. In finding this out I felt there were two main areas I wanted to work on with my case study student one mainly oral reading fluency, but also support him in understanding constant digraphs. For his oral reading fluency, my case study student and I did activities such as choral reading, repetition sentences, and reading aloud together. For example, one activity that we did was a dice game where my student would roll a die and whatever number he landed on was the sentence he would read, if he got the sentence correct he got to roll again. This was a great exercise because I was able to add words that included constant digraphs, but he also got to use repetition that allowed my student to start practice reading with expression and speed. During the activity I saw a huge improved with my student as he read the lines. I