For this
assessment, I chose a little girl, named Sophia, aged four years old. The
results and the suggested learning activities to reinforce the development in
these four areas are as follows:
Print
awareness
She was not able
to recognize the front in the beginning. However, when I reminded her what is
the front cover of the book, she was able to identify the back cover. She was
able to identify letters in the book. However, she was not able to identify
words and identify where I shall begin reading and the first word of a sentence,
punctuation marks.
To reinforce
her development in print awareness, her parents and teachers shall read books
with easy-to-read large print and teach her how books are organized (from left
to right, top to bottom). In addition, words and punctuations should be gradually
explained and showed to her.
Phonemic
awareness
She was not
able to identify words and therefore had limited (nearly no) phonemic
awareness.
To improve her
development of phonemic awareness, teachers shall start from teaching words to
her and gradually train her phonemic awareness by asking her to read new words
using her phonemic awareness.
Phonics
She was able
to identify some simple phonics of letters but not all of them in the book.
To reinforce
her phonics, teachers can teach her by starting with simple and less confused
letter sounds, such as t. After showing her some examples how the letter and
the sounds are connected, the child can be asked to pronounce on her own with
letters in words. After several practices, the teachers may proceed to more
complex letter sounds, such as ch, sh, wh.
Fluency
She was at
frustrational level in fluency because even with my help she was nearly unable
to read due to her limits in identifying words. She was not able to read 60
words correctly per minutes.
To reinforce
her fluency, the approach of student-adult reading can be taken in which her
parent or teacher read the text for her first, serving as a model of fluent
reading. Then she reads the same text with assistance from parent or teacher.
If necessary, re-reading can be asked over several sessions or days as
reinforcement.
It could help
the child practice with phonics.
It could help
the child improve read fluency.
It could help
the child improve read fluency.
If the child is 4 years old, he/she is in uprek. I also assessed a child in uprek. He had some knowledge of print awareness but non for the other three. One of the main reasons for that is because the uprek curriculum doesn't "teach" the alphabets and sounds that correspond to the letters. So it's totally understandable why those students don't have phonological awareness, phonics and fluency.
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