Informal Reading Response Essay

Throughout the semester, I have been working with Jake: a delightful and driven third grade boy at Osceola Elementary School. He has remedial reading problems, for which I am there to help him work through. For this second case study, I administered additional reading assessments to Jake in order to gain further evidence for his instructional needs.
The first test I administered to Jake was the Informal Reading Inventory. One section of the Informal Reading Inventory dealt with reading comprehension. Jake read and answered questions to all of the passages in the packet. He answered 80-100% of all the questions correctly up until the last two passages, where he began to struggle. On the last passage, which was at a 6th grade level, …show more content…
Make a chart with three or four spelling words you want the students’ to learn. At the top of the chart, have the words “trace, copy, and recall.” Have the students fold over the "recall" part so that only the first two columns show. First, have the students’ say the word to themselves. Next, they will trace the word in the first column, saying the letters as they trace. Have them say the word again. The goal is to remember how to spell the words. Next, have them go to the second column, say the word, and write it the same way. While the sound and the feeling of the word are fresh in the students’ mind, have them flip the paper over and say the word and spell it out — the same way, saying each letter. If it's a hard word, put it on the list more than once. After the students’ have done all the words this way a few times, start doing them two or three at a time, and when you feel like they know them, do the list again, but skip the tracing. When you feel as though the students’ have mastered the words, skip the tracing and the copying of the words. This activity will truly drill the different words into the students’ heads. I feel as though repetition is the key to learning how to