Week 5

Assignment#1 Use p.106 examiner’s word list to calculate Mary’s level in word identification.

Mary is reading at an independent level one.  She missed two of the words but was not easily frustrated with those two words.  She uses the appropriate skills to help identify words.

Assignment#2 Use p.107 examiner’s word list to calculate Mary’s level in word identification.

With word list 2 Mary is at instructional level.  That is, she read 85% of the words (17 out of 20) without any errors.  The three words she made errors with she confused the ending of the words.  Level 2is the right passage to assess Mary’s reading with because it is where she displayed a little bit of a struggle. 

Assignment#3 Use p.107 examiner’s word list to calculate Mary’s level in word identification.

At Level 3 word list Mary became frustrated and it was clear that this level was not appropriate for her.  She did not completely give up but it was clear that she was struggling with most words and even skipping through them.  It is appropriate to begin assessing Mary’s reading at Level 2.

Assignment#4 Use examiner’s scoring sheet (pp.223-225) to calculate the scores and to determine Mary’s strengths and needs

Mary’s prior knowledge was minimal but she was able to recall details from the text after reading.  She is at an instructional level with this text.  I think it is an appropriate text for Mary.  Her accuracy rate was 97% and her error rate was 33.  The self-correction rate was 2.  She struggled with sounding out some words and required minimal assistance from the teacher while reading.  Her fluency is average.  After completing the reading Mary was able to describe main ideas and some details from the text (but not all).  Her responses to questions were not very detailed and there was a limited understanding of the text.  Mary is able to sound out words and do not take extended pauses when reading.  It sounds as though she is making sense of what she is reading and not just focusing on what the next word in a sentence is.  A weakness is confusing words and adding endings to words.