Data and Instructional Goals for Shenandoah Fosdyke-Jackson Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement Letter ID For the letter ID task, the student is asked to identify all twenty-six letters uppercase and lowercase letters. If the student cannot name the letter name, then the student is asked to give a word that starts with the letter or the sound that the letter produces. Shenandoah correctly identified all twenty-six uppercase letters and all but one lowercase letter for a total score of 53/54. She confused ‘q’ for ‘p.’…
This problem makes it difficult for one to hear, manipulate, and understand the sounds in spoken words and the syllables of speech sounds; hence, Nathan is unable to comprehend the alphabetic writing system since these letters do represent sounds or…
For the spelling task, he was not able correctly write the first letter of words. For example, he was asked questions like, “Write the first letter that makes the \j\ sound in jelly.” He was also not able to spell simple words, such as cat and in. READING The Early Reading test measure several skills deemed important for developing reading skills.…
This pre-alphabetic stage allows the reader to associate words by symbols with no regards for the alphabetic letters or sounds that make up the word. This stage is followed by the partial alphabetic stage at which the reader will recognize the relationship between letters and sounds and will focus on the easiest segment of the word to identify. Partial alphabetic stage becomes a gateway to letter recognition, sound blending, and pronunciation as students embrace the stage of full alphabetic recognition. As the level of recognition increases through repeated reading, students will soon enter the final stage of consolidated alphabetic recognition. This stage is developed through the use of repeated reading and recognition of patterns, as the information is stored in an instant memory…
Letter-sound knowledge is prerequisite to effective word identification. A primary difference between good and poor readers is the ability to use letter-sound correspondence to identify words (Juel, 1991). Ways I will use alphabetic principle in my classroom are: • Make sure that the children can identify the name shape, and sound of each letter. • Have print material and letters place around the classroom.…
This assessment assesses the child’s knowledge about letters. Students are also allowed to give the correlating sound or word if they cannot say the letter’s name. This is different from other letter recognition assessments because teachers can see what all a students knows about a letter versus them saying that letter’s name. She scored a 54/54. She recognized all letters (upper and lowercase) with no hesitation.…
My mind feels like a 1000 piece puzzle missing a piece. I can’t simply find the right words to say to start this paper. It is always like this when freewriting; the idea of freewriting in and of itself frightens me. Never able to put the words in my head onto paper in a way that it can be read eloquently by others. My hands start to cramp automatically at the idea of freewriting.…
Instead she is in first grade learning first grade material without knowing the foundational skills that she should have learned in Kindergarten. This standard applies to the objective because it explicitly states that students should be able to recognize and name not just upper case letters, but also the lower case letters of the alphabet. 1. Demonstrate understanding…
When I began this English course I was not the writer I am today. I wrote with several errors. I always thought I was an okay writer, but I did not realize I was not good enough to get the grades I wanted in college. I feel like I can say my writing has improved because of this class. For one I now know how to correctly do MLA format.…
In this seminar the three key points I would like to talk about is to always look at the examples for discussion boards and assignments, where to go and learn how to cite resources correctly and the different steps you can take for your topic. When I am unsure of what is required for a post or paper I can always go look at the example to read one. After I see an example I can have an idea of what to wrote about. Also the processor talked about a part of the writing center where I can go learn more about citing my resources. This will come in handy because I still struggle with citing my resources so for now on the writing center will be seeing more of me.…
At the beginning of this English course, I was so nervous and scared that I would fail. I do not think I have ever been a good writer. It has always terrified me because I have difficulty putting my thoughts down on paper. This course has proven to be highly inspiring to me as well as frightening. It has really taught me more about the understanding of the writing process and structure, in which helped me to not focus so much on the actual writing parts.…
Throughout the course of this semester, I have seen tremendous growth in my writing, research, and thinking abilities. When I first began this course, I had no idea what college writing entailed and how to write a piece of scholarly work. My previous experience with writing in high school was dominated by the typical five paragraph structure essay. This course was so essential for me to learn how to write academic papers and enter an actual scholarly discussion, which will allow my writing to have an actual impact in the real world. When I started my writing seminar, I had an idea of what good writing was from high school, and through writing seminar, I built on those skills as well as developed new skills.…
The writing process is different and unique to all individuals; many people follow the ideal steps of prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing as opposed to others taking shortcuts, skipping steps, and going straight to editing. The writing process is the course one takes to get from prewriting to the publication of their essay; since everyone is a different, their writing process will also be different. For me, I believe that following the ideal writing process steps are a tremendous help to organizing my essay and spacing out the work throughout the time the assignment is assigned. To begin writing an essay I must first prewrite; to prewrite is to brainstorm ideas from the prompt by outlining, diagramming, clusterings, or…
I am very thankful for taking this course as I feel I have vastly improved in multiple areas of my communication. I had never taken a course that involved writing a paper and then presenting a speech on it to the class. It was either one or the other, not both. That is what intrigued me to take this course before the semester started. For myself great strides were made in my ability to convince readers through the toulmin model, learned in this course.…
A couple of months ago, I wrote about how I struggle to create an interesting hook that captures my professor’s attention. Here I am, multiple months later and I still struggle to write the perfect hook. Am I okay with that? Actually, yes, because I know I grew in many other areas during this course. I believe I have progressed more than I have in any other English class.…