On Thursday, April 13, I asked eight year old Kahmarion if he would be willing to draw me a picture of anything that he wanted. At first, he was super excited to get to go out into the hall with me to do this activity, but he quickly became frustrated because he couldn’t think of anything to draw. After giving him numerous options of things that he could draw about, such as about his last birthday party, his favorite TV show, what he got for Christmas, what he did over Spring Break, etc., he finally decided that he was going to draw me a picture of a gift that he got for Christmas. After about 5 minutes of drawing, Kahmarion said that he was finished and I began asking him questions about what he drew.
For the sake of time and the fact that Kahmarion gave some pretty lengthy responses to my questions, I only asked him four questions about his drawing. The first question that I asked was, “What is happening in this picture?” His response was, “This is a basketball rim My grama got this for My lase ChristMas.” The second question I asked was, “How do you play this game?” Kahmarion answered, “Me and My brother Play in My room and first you take …show more content…
In terms of writing stage, I would place him in the Transition Within Word Stage, because he is able to process words by chunks, such as the word basket-ball. He has also spelled almost all of the sight words correctly, including make, this, first, take, win, fun, and many more. However, there are a few places where he is confusing vowel patterns, such as in the word shoot, where there are two o’s that make the /oo/ sound, instead of one. There were also a few places where he made some grammar mistakes. My guess is that there would have been less mistakes if I would have done this activity with him about thirty minutes sooner, when his brain wasn’t focused so much on
For the sake of time and the fact that Kahmarion gave some pretty lengthy responses to my questions, I only asked him four questions about his drawing. The first question that I asked was, “What is happening in this picture?” His response was, “This is a basketball rim My grama got this for My lase ChristMas.” The second question I asked was, “How do you play this game?” Kahmarion answered, “Me and My brother Play in My room and first you take …show more content…
In terms of writing stage, I would place him in the Transition Within Word Stage, because he is able to process words by chunks, such as the word basket-ball. He has also spelled almost all of the sight words correctly, including make, this, first, take, win, fun, and many more. However, there are a few places where he is confusing vowel patterns, such as in the word shoot, where there are two o’s that make the /oo/ sound, instead of one. There were also a few places where he made some grammar mistakes. My guess is that there would have been less mistakes if I would have done this activity with him about thirty minutes sooner, when his brain wasn’t focused so much on