Essay On Focus Learner

In reviewing baseline data, the focus learner has had a difficulty in the past with paraphrasing information and comprehending what she has read. Baseline data shows that the focus learner can read an excerpt and when answering questions related to what she has just read, she scored a 42%. In a second work sample review, the focus learner completed a constructed response writing, with a grade of 1 being given for one full sentence with something to do about the reading, 2 being given for at least 2 complete sentences and 1 fact about the excerpt restated, and 3 being given for 3 complete sentences and at least 2 facts given about the excerpt. The focus learner scored a 1 on her writing sample by writing 1 complete sentence about the excerpt …show more content…
In the past, the focus learner will read informational text and will then copy word-for-word what she has just read, without the ability to interpret any meaning from it. In a previous learning segment, the focus learner was to read aloud with the teacher an informational text on the Mayan culture. The focus learner and the teacher read the text, and when the time came for the focus learner to write/paraphrase the facts on what she had just read, she was unable to complete this task. The information she wrote down in her text was copied directly from the text and she was unable to talk about what she had read or wrote down. In this assignment, for the new learning segment on the American Revolution, the focus learner was allowed to choose her topic, something that she showed interest in, and then was able to research the information. The focus learner was provided with directions to read the text and when she found a fact she would write the fact down on a sheet of paper, and then go back and paraphrase the fact after completing the article, using her grade level