Kayl Oral Reading Analysis

Kayla read 53 words correctly out of 76 total words, scoring 69.7%. This percentage places Kayla in the frustration reading level for word accuracy, which is reading 68 words or less correctly and scoring at or below 90%. Kayla substituted words as the majority of her mistakes, she never repeated, reversed, or appealed. Some examples of her substitutions are: sometimes for “Sara”, becomes for “asked”, and explaining for “string”, there were about 20 substitutions in all. These mistakes made the passage difficult for her to understand because when the sentence said, “Mom, do you have some string?” Kayla interpreted it as Mom, said do you have some explaining? She only omitted one word, which was “Sara”, inserted the word said, and self-corrected the word “fix”. These …show more content…
When Kayla was questioned by the assessor for the first comprehension question, “What was Sara looking at?” Kayla replied a book, but the answer was the big tree. For the second question “What did Sara want from her mother?” Kayla replied to learn to read, but the answer was string. It was after the second question that the assessor chose to stop the Oral Reading Inventory. Kayla’s comprehension level ranked at frustration, with 4 or less question answered correctly. Overall, Kayla scored a Rating Score of 1 on the Comprehension Rubric, which states “Student has no recall or minimal recall of only a fact or two from the passage.” Also, while reading the passage Kayla exhibited similar traits to the Oral Reading Fluency Assessment, with prosody and pace. There was little inflection or intonation, and her pace was very slow and choppy. The assessor will work with Kayla on comprehension skills while reading a chapter book together. The assessor will write comprehension questions to ask Kayla at the conclusion of each chapter. Also, while reading leveled texts, the assessor will request that Kayla retell the story at the end of the