Week 5- Assignments 1-4

Week 5

Assignment#1 

After reading the Level 1 Word List, Mary was reading at an Independent Level, reading correctly 18 out of 20 words, and placing her in the 90 percentile.

Assignment #2 

After reading the Level 2 Word List, Mary was reading at Instructional Level, reading 17 words correctly, placing her in the 85 percentile.

Assignment #3 

After attempting to read the Level 3 Word list, Mary was reading at frustration level and was able to read about 4 words correctly but didn't complete the rest of the word list in the clip.

Assignment #4 

After viewing the videos and scoring Mary the scorings sheets on pages 223 -225 it seems that Mary's main struggles deal with overall comprehension and needs to work on understanding the details in the passage. For the Prior Knowledge assessment, Mary had minimal knowledge of the passage and answered, “I don’t know” to 2 out of the 3 questions(3/9). Her actual Oral Reading analysis of a Level 2 reading passage, consisting of 197 words, indicated she is reading at an accuracy rate of 95%, which is at instructional level. While her actual reading and word identification seems more or less on target with the level 2 passage, the retelling video depicted how Mary had some difficulties with comprehension of what exactly she was reading.

Out of all of the ideas and questions listed in the book, she only seemed to have grasped around 14-15 of them, with just a few of the main ideas included and barely any details. She seems to require help with understanding the details of the passage she read. From what I’ve watched (and hope I’ve scored correctly), while her reading skills are on a second grade instructional level, it seems that Mary, who is a 3^rd grade ESL student, may be experiencing difficulties with comprehension of the passage she read. Perhaps another passage should be read just in case to confirm if it’s an actual lack of comprehension skills or she just didn’t remember at the moment or wasn’t interested in what she was reading.