"Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently." - William Arthur Ward.
This final session has given me an idea of Kayara's strengths and weaknesses in regards to phoneme awareness and phonics. The Reading Success Network assessment book I used today has helped me to recognize where I need to begin as far as strategies for next semester. Once she becomes more fluent in areas such as consonant blends and short vowels, it will help her with her reading fluency. All the sessions we have had for this semester was a great learning experience. I have a better understanding of the hard work and documentation that reading specialists need to do. The final product for this course is taking everything we assessed and compiling it into a diagnostic report. It will give us the chance to brush up on our writing skills that we have acquired from our undergraduate courses. Good luck to us all.
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Yes, Annette, we're going to put on our writer's caps now that we're done with our Reading Specialist Assessment cap. I'm so glad that you were able to pinpoint just what your student's problem areas are. That seems like it would go a very long way to helping you now just what to tackle next semester. You can go in with a laser instead of a missile and see better results!
ReplyDeleteAnnette I can see as you share, that you are passionate about your student and the work that you put in every session shows! It is my hope that we all are successful in making our students better readers, and with such a hardworking and supportive group (and guidance from our great professor) I know we will succeed!
ReplyDeleteWhile your student is just the opposite of mine, they do have one thing in common...teachers who care! You're on the right track Annette. Just keep on doing what you're doing. Your student and her parents will thank you all the more for it. Happy Thanksgiving Day!
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ReplyDeleteExcellent work. I was just reading an article the other day for one of my TESOL classes about making sure student have the proper decoding skills, otherwise the bottom will fall out of their reading boat! Knock it out second semester.