Nt1310 Unit 2 Assignment

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Setting: The setting is at home. The lighting was dim and the child is sitting at the desk looking at a computer monitor with the keyboard sitting on a pullout tray. The desk is cluttered with all kinds of distracting item such as folders, a holder with markers, pens, and pencils, and a row of magazines and books. The video camera seems to be set on a tripod or other stable item with a constant clicking sound in the background.

Other students/teachers involved:

The only person that can be identified other than the child is the mother. Educational Material Used:

The story is from the Harcourt Storytown book series called “Rev it up, Kim”. The reading grade level is for kindergarten and higher. The story is about two characters
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seemed to have very little difficulties throughout. I could hear and recognize his attempts at using intonation while reading each sentence. His word recognition of common sight words was excellent and he used his decoding abilities to sound out unfamiliar words. While reading, I noticed his phonemic awareness was good when distinguishing different sounds of similar words such as mop/map, Tom/time, get/gas, and will/fill.
Fluency needed more work it was slow and deliberate reading. He read with very little mistakes, but throughout the reading you could hear slight pauses between each word as if he was reading single sight words.
My recommendations would include repeated readings of books that he is comfortable with to increase fluency and add modeling of fluent reading by the instructor. I would also introduce the next level of sight words and books to scaffold his decoding abilities and expand vocabulary. I would find books with more complex sentence structure that included several “next” level sight words that repeated throughout the story. I noticed that he used the mouse pointer to keep his place while reading. I would have him practice more reading from an actual book to become more familiar with using his eyes and introduce using book markers or other items as place