week 7

week 7 assignment 5
I assessed Ricky Knofler a six year old English language learner in her print awareness, phonemic awareness, phonics and fluency to get a clear grasp on where she is holding in her literacy skills.
I began by asking her questions assessing her print awareness. I asked her to point out to me,

• The front of the book
• The title of the book
• Where you should begin reading
• A letter
• A word
• The first word of a sentence
• The last word of a sentence
• The first and last word on a page
• Punctuation marks
• A capital letter
• A lowercase letter
• The back of the book

she scored perfectly on this short print awareness assessment.

I then assessed her phonemic and phonological awareness by having her name the letters and sounds in a story. She did perfectly I tried having her count the syllables of words in a sentence asking  her to segment the words by their syllables yet that was too hard. I hope to work on her phonological awareness by the ideas given on reading rockets. begin by having her count the words and then teach how to count the syllables.

I assessed her phonics by having her combine letters to make sounds. She did well on the single letter graphemes and digraphs. she was able to read simple words accurately. I would like to do the phonics activities with her found on the starfall website. The activities are simple, fun and really effective.

I assessed her fluency by doing a WPM she scored pretty bad on that. She was only able to read a couple words in minute. I feel like I should focus on perfect her phonics skills and phonemic awareness and that will greatly enhance her fluency level. l will also read to her and have her repeat after me familiarizing her with more words.

I would also suggest to her the websites alpha writer which is great for phonics skills and storyline online to enhance fluency.