Jilline is a six-year-old first grader who is an English Language Learner for General Education classrooms. Her primary home language is Vietnamese. On November 7, 2014 I did a reading assessment on Jilline. She read the book Put Me in the Zoo with lexile 150L; she completed this manuscript with 94% accuracy.
Jilline is an "EARLY" reader who can read a story with a difficulty of 60 Lexile with 90% accuracy. However, she needs to work on her reading comprehension and on her ability to successfully retell a story that she has read. Although she was able to read the majority of the aforementioned book; she evinced difficulty retelling the story which indicates that her comprehension of the various events and characters in the tale was lacking. Additionally, Jilline could use work in phonics to help her accurately pronounce words. Improved phonemic work could also assist her overall reading comprehension. Lastly, Jilline's fluency also needs improvement. Although she was able to successfully read through the majority of the text, her reading was frequently choppy. By improving her fluency she will ideally read as easily as she talks.
Based on this assessment of Jilline's reading ability, I believe that she could benefit from the READ ALOUD strategy. Reading out loud on a more frequent basis would enable the young girl to improve her fluency and work on her phonemic development. Moreover, it should also help her improve her comprehension by gaining much more experience with reading. The specific strategy I will employ for reading aloud, which will apply not just to Jilline but to her entire class, is based on modeling. I will read a certain amount of pages to the class -- approximately half of that of the story -- in which I will emphasize, via vocal inflection, salient points in the plot, characters and character developments, and other points of interest. I will then divide the remaining number of pages amongst the class to read. Each child will read a page before rotating to another learner....
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