Digraph

Jason demonstrates proficiency in areas of letter recognition, phonemic awareness, reading and spelling. He’s able to identify word structures such as vowels, consonants, blends, digraphs, digraph blends and identifying parts of words such as syllables and suffixes. Jason is also able to write both capital and lower case letters and fill in the appropriate word in the sentence. In addition, he is able to read high frequency words and independently decode text at a level K. However, Jason…

As a tutor for a 3rd grade student, I administered a variety of assessments to evaluate the student’s literacy strengths and challenges. The follow reflects the completed assessments: Reading Attitude, Reader Self-Perception, Phonemic Awareness, Word Lists, Spelling Inventory, Oral Reading passages, Writing Attitude survey, and a Writing Self-Perception survey. The results from each assessment are as followed: scored 41/45 on the nine dimensions of Phonemic Awareness assessment; accurately…

She also was able to spell all of the digraphs correctly, as well as understand the –ed ending. Her biggest struggles in the beginning were that she did not distinguish between short and long vowel sounds. She struggled with almost every long vowel pattern except –o_e and –ea. She also had troubles…

individual reading/spelling assessments. This phonics worksheet was given in late April as a review worksheet. On this phonics worksheet, the student is asked to look at the picture and fill in the correct beginning digraph to complete the word for the picture. This is a review because digraphs were introduced at the end of Kindergarten and then re-taught at the beginning…

8:30, Mr. Percuoco greets me with a “good morning” and the 21 6 to 7 year old children say “hi”. Mr. Percuoco is the only teacher in the room throughout the morning. The classroom is full of posters on the walls that have written rules, numbers, digraphs, and colors on them to help the children remember. Also on the wall, are jobs kids are assigned to. Mr. Percuoco has a paper ladder that has steps that leads to being above the zone. The children start every morning in the zone; if they are good…

Deciphering the Alphabetic Code “English language is an alphabetic language, and children learn to crack this code as they learn about phonemes (sounds), graphemes (letters), and graphophonemic (letter-sound) relationships” (Tompkins, 2014). Children learn the letters as they speak the alphabet and learn to spell their names. Children learn sounds as they use syllables to segment a word or hear words that rhyme. Children use graphophonemic relationships to understand how letters and sound are…

Another component of analyzing invented spelling is breaking down phonics in each word. To analyze break this words down we look at the word phonemic elements. Cole did a fantastic job using these elements in his writing. The first word I looked at was “rokitchip”. This is how Cole phonemically spelled out rocket ship. The phonemic element he used in this word is consonant blends with the letters ch. Consonant blends are mixing two consonants together to make a new sound that combines their…

Jacie, I understand that you need help with finding ways to use technology to help the students that you work with. In my last class, EDCI 516 Reading in Content, we discussed and researched sources and websites that teachers can use as a tool to help improve, practice, and review site words, spelling words, reading comprehension, and mathematical skills with their students. I, myself, was not very familiar with technology and the utilization of it in a grade school classroom. After taking…

Phonics Mastery Survey and Phonemic Awareness Assessments. The Phonics Mastery Survey is an informal tool for assessing various phonics elements. This assessment measures a student’s ability to recognize consonant sounds, rhyming words, consonant digraphs, long vowel sounds, words with CVC patterns, consonant blends, variant vowel sounds, and syllables in words (DeVries 2011 p.112). A student’s ability to use knowledge of sound/letter correspondences to decode words, determines his or her…

Throughout the time that I have spent within my field placement, the teacher has allotted various small increments of time for vocabulary. The teacher usually spends less than five minutes discussing vocabulary that the students will see in a new book or when there is a question about a new vocabulary word. If the teacher is introducing multiple new words, she will spend between ten to fifteen minutes introducing the words, explaining the definitions of the words (and explaining which definition…