Activity # 4 (Opitz) p. 14
Use Table 1.1 “Summary of
Proficient and Less Proficient Reading Behaviors” to observe a reader. Highlight the characteristics you notice and
provide an example of what you see.
When working with a new student in
my classroom I found that she was somewhat a less proficient reader. I found that with working with this student
she was focusing way too much on just decoding the words that by the
time she got to the end of the sentence she had little to no
comprehension. She focused far too much on pronouncing the word that she was unable to even try to decipher meaning from the text. When there were struggles
I had to remind het to use more strategies for tricky words as well as look
at visual print information to help create comprehension.
This student is very aware that she
is a lower level reader in our class and I think that is one of the biggest
struggles to overcome. We discussed the
importance of just focusing on self-growth but clearly there is an emotional
tie to this. When she gets frustrated I
find that she just ignores miscues and does not try to connect them. I also found that the words that she would
try to say were in chunks. She was chunking
parts of the word, not parts of the sentence.
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