Spelling Inventory Assessment

Administering diagnostic surveys and assessments among students is the first step in the intricate process of teaching. Analyzing this data is very important, as it provides teachers with useful information. Once the proper data is acquired the results are used to plan for literacy remediation and instruction. Instructional focus is important for the students to begin honing in on their weak areas and strengthening their capabilities. The following analysis is that of a second grader. A students strengths are their comprehension abilities, recognition of staring and ending consonants, word accuracy in context, and moderate phonetic decoding skills. The students comprehension in demonstrated by their scores of 3, and 2, on “Within the Text”, and “Beyond and About the Text”, respectively. They demonstrated an understand of the plot of the story and provided specific details from the text. They also …show more content…
The word list assessment showed that when mistakes were made the consonant sounds were rarely the source of the mistakes. For example, “man” was pronounced “mon", “nap” was pronounced “nop", “nut” was pronounced “not”, indicating a recognition of beginning and ending consonants. The Spelling Inventory assessment demonstrates a similar pattern. For example “clapping” was spelled “klaping”, “wishes” was spelled “Wishis”, “crawl” was spelled “crol”, “sled” was spelled “slad’, demonstrating his ability to identify even compound consonants. Their recognition of consonants extends beyond simple sounds to more complex variations such as, “ch”, and “sh”. The students scored 91% in oral reading accuracy. His pronunciation improved in the Oral Reading Assessment in contrast to the Word List Assessment. This indicated that the student can use context to aid in pronunciation. It is not uncommon for readers to perform better in running text than in the isolation of a Word List