Assignment #3 Student Awareness Assessement

The student I assessed was a boy in kindergarten.  The following is the results from my assessment of print awareness, sounds of speech, phonemic awareness and phonics. 

Print Awareness

Student was able to : 

      ·         identify the front, back and spine of the book

·         knew where to begin reading and title of the book

·         could recognize letters, words and the first word and last word of a sentence

·         lowercase letters

Student could not:

·         Capital letters

·         Punctuation marks (stated a comma meant to stop)

·         First and last word on a page

Sounds of Speech

Phonemic awareness

Student was able to:

·         relate sounds heard to letters and words

·         recognize the first sound in the words: van, man, cat, and Amber

·         related the beginning sound of the word cat to the beginning sound of his name

·         identify that fix, fall and fun all began with the same sound /f/

·         listen to a sequence of separately spoken phonemes and combine to form a word

·         count out accurately the sounds in words such as box and map

·         substitute one phoneme for another to make a new word such as bug to bun

Student could not:

·         recognize the odd sound in a set of words

·         count out accurately the separate sounds in some words such as grab and trip (said each was only 3 sounds)

·         recognize the word that remains when a phoneme is removed (smile à mile)

·         make a new word by adding a phoneme (park à spark)

Phonics

                Student was able to:

·      identify letters in the alphabet and their sounds

·      use phonic awareness to sound out words such as bat, hat, pit and run

Summary:

The first mini lesson I would have with the student is with print awareness, focusing only on punctuation, first and last word on a page and capital letters.  I would also need to focus small group instruction or individual instruction on the odd sound in a set of words.  The student would need to have index cards with the words written on them.  The assessment was only auditory; may have needed a visual.  The visual of adding and taking way a sound to form new words will also need to be auditory and visual.  This can be done using magnetic letters of the alphabet.

Websites to develop areas of concern:  http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/Readquarium/Phonics_and_Phonemes/

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/theospuzzles.html and http://www.abcmouse.com/phonics_games