Carmen is a seven-year-old second-grade student in Mrs. F class. According to Mrs. F, Carmen’s reading current reading level is performing at a low first-grade reading level. She is extremely social inside and outside of the classroom. When in class, Carmen likes to help her peers when she is given the opportunity. Outside with her friends, Carmen is social with any student that is interested becoming her friend. Carmen is focused on her school studies and does not give up when learning becomes difficult. Carmen is aware that she is not reading at the same level as her peers, and works twice as hard to try to improve her reading. Carmen knows the importance of reading based on how she expresses her hard work trying to …show more content…
Carmen’s performance on the Yopp-Singer test of phoneme segmentation demonstrated her ability to listen to the words and break them apart based on their sound. Out of the 22 words, Carmen pronounced 16 correctly. The mistakes that Carmen had were minor mistakes, she either confused the word or she was unsure of the sound. She was able to successfully read letters that were ***** with only two. Words that were *** she was able to answer with confidence, and did not hesitate when sounding out the words. The three sound blend words is Carmen’s area of strength and she received them all correct. Carmen’s area of strength with the Yopp-Singer Test
Knowing that Carmen is capable of listen to the sounds of words demonstrates how she is capable of paying attention to the sounds of words and how she is able to break them apart. Carmen’s ability to focus on the ****
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First, is defining what a verb is will help Carmen focus on the words that are changed when–ed or –ing are added. Next, having verb words on index cards will help Carmen visually see how the verbs meaning changes when –ing and –ed are placed. To monitor Carmen’s understanding of present and past tense verbs by having Carmen read sentences that have words with –ing or –ed verbs. Then, having Carmen point out the verb and the type of ending they have. Carmen will be given the opportunity to explain if the verb is present or past tense. Monitoring how Carmen is able reads sentences with past and present tense words will allow me to see if she continues to ignore the ending of verbs when adding –ing or –ed. Also, having Carmen find the verb in the sentence will also help with knowing how much Carmen understands what she is reading. Carmen seeing and reading words with the ending –ing or –ed will help Carmen’s comprehension of what she is reading, but also her overall reading. She will no longer be guessing the word when they have –ing or –ed ending, instead, she will be able to read the word correctly by her ability to recognize the