Wow! A first full week is a busy!! I feel that we are all trying to figure things out! Overall, I feel that I am getting more comfortable with the project and my clients. It was also nice to witness shared reading by the pros. I hope to get to that level one day. I am also learning how to be a better reading buddy! I’m learning how to change my level of mediation based on the material and what the client needs. I am also figuring out how to do that therapeutic effect. It is one thing to just read with someone but a whole other to slip in those strategies.
I am also learning how to do a cooperative learning group. CLG take a lot more planning then expected. I tended to go overboard with what I thought we could do the first two days. I realized …show more content…
Most of our books for shared reading had repetitive text. However, the client has not really picked up that the book is repetitive yet. However, with some time, strategies and practice I feel that he will pick this up. Overall, LP lacks confidence when reading and tends to rely heavy on his partner. I feel that his caregiver may just read the word for him when he gets frustrated. Also, if a page has a lot text LP sometimes reads a word above or below the actual text line. So if the sentence says, “I’m going on a bear hunt.” He may read it as “ I am going to field hunt”. In this made up example, the sentence before “I’m going on a bear hunt” had the word field above this sentence. Or he will began reading the sentence and finish reading the sentence below what we are reading. So I am curious on what to do with when this occurs. I just orient him back to the sentence and ask if what he just read makes sense. Overall, LP mainly does text in substitution based on graphophonemic similarities. It also should be noted that in most cases the words are similar only based on first letter. This will be the main goal to tackle for the …show more content…
He enjoys informative writing. He is not a fan of the creative writing. He also does not have varied sentence structure when writing and does not like assistance. He has told me not to look at something until he has finished a paragraph. In these instances, I just let him go on writing. I also think his initial writing sample was not representative of his true abilities.
AB has great organizational skill when writing. For example, during his first story he had three chapters. The first chapter listed the elements. The second one had the how each element was the strongest. The third chapter was about the weakest element. When picking his title though, I think he picked something cool. I don’t think he related to what he actually wrote (even though elements do help us). His second story is about shields. He has only written about two sentences thus
I am also learning how to do a cooperative learning group. CLG take a lot more planning then expected. I tended to go overboard with what I thought we could do the first two days. I realized …show more content…
Most of our books for shared reading had repetitive text. However, the client has not really picked up that the book is repetitive yet. However, with some time, strategies and practice I feel that he will pick this up. Overall, LP lacks confidence when reading and tends to rely heavy on his partner. I feel that his caregiver may just read the word for him when he gets frustrated. Also, if a page has a lot text LP sometimes reads a word above or below the actual text line. So if the sentence says, “I’m going on a bear hunt.” He may read it as “ I am going to field hunt”. In this made up example, the sentence before “I’m going on a bear hunt” had the word field above this sentence. Or he will began reading the sentence and finish reading the sentence below what we are reading. So I am curious on what to do with when this occurs. I just orient him back to the sentence and ask if what he just read makes sense. Overall, LP mainly does text in substitution based on graphophonemic similarities. It also should be noted that in most cases the words are similar only based on first letter. This will be the main goal to tackle for the …show more content…
He enjoys informative writing. He is not a fan of the creative writing. He also does not have varied sentence structure when writing and does not like assistance. He has told me not to look at something until he has finished a paragraph. In these instances, I just let him go on writing. I also think his initial writing sample was not representative of his true abilities.
AB has great organizational skill when writing. For example, during his first story he had three chapters. The first chapter listed the elements. The second one had the how each element was the strongest. The third chapter was about the weakest element. When picking his title though, I think he picked something cool. I don’t think he related to what he actually wrote (even though elements do help us). His second story is about shields. He has only written about two sentences thus