Introduction:
D is an 11-year-old boy who has just finished the fifth grade. He is the child of a friend who goes to school in a neighboring district. Due to the fact that school has already released for the summer, and my placement out of the classroom this year, it was necessary to reach out to a student within the middle school range who was known to me, but not in an educational relationship.
D has tested as high average in informational text and literature and high in vocabulary use and acquisition in language arts in the state standardized test. He has been diagnosed as high functioning Aspergers, ADHD and generalized anxiety. He has received Title 1 reading intervention for grades k-4 and tested out last year. His Lexile range is 879-1079.
Text Analysis:
D chose the following two books: Eragon by Christopher Paolini as his difficult text and The Whale Scientists, solving the Mystery of Whale Strandings by Fran Hodgkins as his easy text.
Text Complexity Table for Eragon from teachers.net, n.d., Retrieved June 19, 2016.
Eragon is a young adult fantasy fiction text that is the beginning novel of a trilogy by Christopher Paolini. The story takes place in a land created by the author that is further supported by specific created languages, elves, dwarves and other mystical characters. The …show more content…
It contains a significant amount of scientific text with such significant terms as necropsy, postmortem, Inuit, Basque, forceps, indelible and the numerous scientific names. A Text Talk vocabulary presentation, allowing students to interact with the words, as suggested by Roberta Linder in Text Talk with Picture Books, prior to reading would help elevate the level of understanding of students. The Lexile determination appears appropriate. As a non-fiction text, it is heavily saturated with history and science and is quite thorough in its explanations. D, however, felt this was an easy text because “It’s about
D is an 11-year-old boy who has just finished the fifth grade. He is the child of a friend who goes to school in a neighboring district. Due to the fact that school has already released for the summer, and my placement out of the classroom this year, it was necessary to reach out to a student within the middle school range who was known to me, but not in an educational relationship.
D has tested as high average in informational text and literature and high in vocabulary use and acquisition in language arts in the state standardized test. He has been diagnosed as high functioning Aspergers, ADHD and generalized anxiety. He has received Title 1 reading intervention for grades k-4 and tested out last year. His Lexile range is 879-1079.
Text Analysis:
D chose the following two books: Eragon by Christopher Paolini as his difficult text and The Whale Scientists, solving the Mystery of Whale Strandings by Fran Hodgkins as his easy text.
Text Complexity Table for Eragon from teachers.net, n.d., Retrieved June 19, 2016.
Eragon is a young adult fantasy fiction text that is the beginning novel of a trilogy by Christopher Paolini. The story takes place in a land created by the author that is further supported by specific created languages, elves, dwarves and other mystical characters. The …show more content…
It contains a significant amount of scientific text with such significant terms as necropsy, postmortem, Inuit, Basque, forceps, indelible and the numerous scientific names. A Text Talk vocabulary presentation, allowing students to interact with the words, as suggested by Roberta Linder in Text Talk with Picture Books, prior to reading would help elevate the level of understanding of students. The Lexile determination appears appropriate. As a non-fiction text, it is heavily saturated with history and science and is quite thorough in its explanations. D, however, felt this was an easy text because “It’s about