X is a nine-year-old foster student who has moved around a lot due to foster-family changes. Currently, he is in a loving and stable environment with dads that adore him. This has done a great deal of good but has not made up completely for the lack of structure received in his earlier/ developmental years. Regardless of the activity, X is very active and always has a bunch on his mind. When I first met him, he was the one asking me questions before I had the chance to ask him, now we are equal in talking. Currently, X attends Madison’s E.O Muncie elementary school. Because of his previous home life(s) which lacked structure, he tends to get off task easily he also appears to have ADHD, but that was not brought up. According to my first conversations
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Placing at level F with an accuracy of 91, for the first running record X treated every word as a sight word and placed a heavy emphasis on trying to look at the pictures for clues. The word “trying” is key. X initially lacked the ability to relate the pictures to the text due to poor reading comprehension skills and lack of vocabulary knowledge, which I learned at the end of the assessment. At the end of the assessment, I asked him what the story was about (a butcher) and he could not recall the information from the 57 words read. Lacking the knowledge of the actual text made it more difficult for him to find clues in the pictures to relate to the unknown words that he was trying to sound out, or guessed. He said the word “butcher” was “brother” because he did not know what a butcher was he furthermore said the word “sheep” instead of “sausages” because animals had been listed previously in the book and he did not draw a connection to the sausages hanging in the picture. Short vowel sounds were also a weaker point for X, who had trouble sounding out the short vowel sounds throughout the
Placing at level F with an accuracy of 91, for the first running record X treated every word as a sight word and placed a heavy emphasis on trying to look at the pictures for clues. The word “trying” is key. X initially lacked the ability to relate the pictures to the text due to poor reading comprehension skills and lack of vocabulary knowledge, which I learned at the end of the assessment. At the end of the assessment, I asked him what the story was about (a butcher) and he could not recall the information from the 57 words read. Lacking the knowledge of the actual text made it more difficult for him to find clues in the pictures to relate to the unknown words that he was trying to sound out, or guessed. He said the word “butcher” was “brother” because he did not know what a butcher was he furthermore said the word “sheep” instead of “sausages” because animals had been listed previously in the book and he did not draw a connection to the sausages hanging in the picture. Short vowel sounds were also a weaker point for X, who had trouble sounding out the short vowel sounds throughout the