Improving Student Orthnographic Awareness

When I began the course Read 3306 I was unaware of the processes, and evaluations, we must adhere to in order to fully understand where our student stands in their orthographic awareness. Learning these teaching processes and evaluation strategies helped me develop a new outlook of my second grade student and her abilities. It also aided in my preparation of activities that would help further her understandings of orthographic rules, reading strategies and phonological awareness that she had yet to master. In order to evaluate our students, we must first rate ourselves as teachers. We need to be aware of what we may lack in knowledge in the process of instruction and evaluation of a student reading, and writing. I acknowledged that the …show more content…
She was able to create a story, which may have possibly been based on how she felt about growing up. She was able to generate a story line, using vocabulary that she was familiar with. I came to this conclusion based on her performance when she put the sentence from the story in the correct order. Her familiarity with these words seemed to aid her in recognizing their spelling from memory. Although as I look forward to her spelling inventory and other activities that she was given I see now that her lack of descriptive words and detail correlates with her skill set. Now that I had an insight into her linguistic and vocabulary skills. I performed a spelling inventory to gain factual information, based on her writing skills and orthographic awareness. She was able to master the emergent stage of spelling, but was still lacking skills in the Beginning Letter- Name Alphabetic Stage. The first area of word knowledge that she needed to develop further practice in order to move forward was digraphs. I was a little surprised by her lack knowledge in short vowel sounds in her writing during our writing prompt in the next …show more content…
During this lesson I learned that she was aware of predictions we can make from pictures in a picture book. I also became aware of her ability to distinguish beginning, middle, and end in a story. I used this writing prompt to also further investigate her orthographic awareness. This particular writing showed me she was also lacking awareness of short vowel sounds. For instance, she wrote the word wnt for went and continued to leave the vowels out of words altogether throughout her sentences. This was a contradiction her spelling inventory where she scored seven out of seven in that particular orthographic