Describe The Relationship Between Carne And Buster's

Catherine is a very sweet third grader from Bluffton Elementary. She comes from what seems to be a very loving and caring home. She is the daughter of the owners of Bluffton’s local Mexican restaurant. She loves soccer and her favorite color is blue. Her favorite book to read is called Dogmom, and her favorite place to go is Dave and Buster’s. Outside of school, she takes karate classes that she greatly dislikes. Catherine is fairly new to the Bluffton community. Beforehand, she attended a private school in Findlay where she took ESL classes. She is a bilingual student and can fluently speak both English and Spanish. When asked what language is primarily spoken at home, she said it was mostly Spanish. Catherine has mastered the short vowel sounds. She has a habit of reading unknown words as words that she is familiar with, and that are visually similar to the unknown word. For example, in one of the AIMS Web passages, she read the word “boat” as “bottle”. Catherine is also very consistent on attempting to read every word she comes in contact with in a passage instead of skipping over it or not giving any effort to try to read the word. The running records passage given to her included words from the Spanish decent, like “Juanita” and “Lopez”. She was able to correctly read these words. …show more content…
The spelling inventories from both times given suggest that Catherine needs instruction on the common long vowel patterns. She is falling in between the early and middle within word pattern spelling stage, and it is critical for her to grasp the knowledge of long vowel patterns for her reading to improve. It seems that she has difficult reading words with various affixes on them, and chooses to guess a word that starts with the same letter as the word read instead of trying to sound out the unknown