Literacy Assessment Reflection

This week I got to see some different things in the classroom than I had before. One of these things was assessments. On Wednesday, the students had an assessment in both math and in their literacy block. During the literacy assessment I was assigned one student to work with you has an IEP with testing accommodations. The test that they were being given was a three page reading selection from the book Shiloh with nine multiple choice questions and an essay which had an outline for them to make first. They were being given two hours to complete it if needed. The teacher explained that the student I was working with needed to have the passage and questions read to him as part of his accommodations. He also was allowed to take a walk when he needed a break or got frustrated. Separate testing spaces is also included in his IEP. I was able to look at his real IEP which was really helpful. I had never seen one before. We have talked about them in our classes and learned how to make accommodations within our lessons for them but I didn’t know how they were actually written. This is …show more content…
I read the prompt to him and then he completed the outline. In class they had previously practiced how to fill out the type of template that was given to them on this assessment. He was able to do this pretty well. Then he transferred his outline into essay form. This took him awhile because he had to keep rereading what he had written and wanted to make sure all his spelling was correct. He would write down different ways to spell a word until he thought it was spelt right. I thought this was interesting because I was able to see what areas of spelling he was struggling with. I related it to the words their way spelling tests we gave out student we are working with for our literary assessment. I could also see how he was sounding each word out and he was able to get the correct sounds down on paper even if it wasn’t the actual letters that should be