What's On Your Pizza Rhetorical Analysis

For this project I analyzed one of my good friend’s sister to read “What’s on Your Pizza?” The girl’s name is Alexandra Wheeler and she is 11 years old. She is in 5th grade and is the middle child of 7 children. She loves playing sports such soccer and running track. She is also a part of a program called “Lions pride,” where kids, who are quite intelligent, teach other kids, who may struggle in school, how to problem solve. She has helped a variety of students in this program and has straight A’s in school. After reading the passage, Alexandra ended up getting independent level for reading. She got an accuracy rate of 97%, with only four errors appearing in the 151 running words. Patterns I saw occurring from Alexandra was when she did not fully know how to say a word, she would pause for a minute, sound it out, and then say the full word. This method truly helped her recognize the words. In the text, Graves brings up that “Most words we read are recognized automatically, with the reader processing …show more content…
She was also able to articulate when the sentences ended and began. I never got lost or wondered when a sentence ended. Also when there was a question in the story, she said the sentence just as if she was asking a question, so it was not difficult for me to distinguish between questions and regular statements. She is a quick reader and when asked what is going on in the story, she is able to recite what went on in the story almost perfectly. So, she is able to take in the content read pretty easily. Now let me state some of Alexandra’s weaknesses. One weakness she has is her confidence in reading. An example, while reading the story “What’s on your pizza?” was when she got to the word “Eatery,” she essentially sounded like she put a question mark at the end of the word. She also got left out suffixes in the story, which is an issue since that is a big part of reading and