Sunday, February 26, 2017

WEEK 5 QRI5

Assignment 1- 
Mary had to read a level 1 word list of 20. Her results were 18 out of 20, she had skipped 2 words. This leaves Mary in the independent level.
Assignment 2-
Mary read level 2 words and read 17 out of 20 words correctly. Mary skipped 2 words and this leaves her in the instructional level.
Assignment 3- 
Mary had to read level 3 words, she was only able to read 4 words. The examiner stopped the exam when Mary was showing the difficulty in words. This leaves Mary in the frustration level.

Passage Results- 
10 Miscues, 5 were self corrected
46 WPM
44 WPM
Mary is in the instructional level.

Strengths- 
Mary was able to read level 1 and level 2 word list pretty strong with out much difficulty. On level 3 it showed she had many difficulties. When reading the passage she did not start off strong because she lost her place while reading. After she was directed to read with her finger she began to read with fluency and showed some strength. Unlike the words in word list she didn't skip over any words and tried her best on self correcting herself and producing the words she did not know. After the passage she was able to somewhat retell the story and understand what she read. Overall Mary read at a second grade level.

Needs- 
Mary needs to work on strengthening her fluency while reading. As well she needs to practice on a larger vocabulary, this comes with reading more. She needs to always read with a pointer finger to not loose her place and to keep focus. While reading words it showed that she needs to cover the words as she goes down. If Mary were to read more and get pulled into a small group or one-to-one her reading skills can strengthen a bit more.



Monday, February 20, 2017

Week 4 Assignment 1

After I watched all tree video I gathered more information and knowledge about RTI, however the first video is the one I found better because I gathered more knowledge on how RTI is used and it explain the three tiers. Each tier targets students that every teacher has in the classroom and does not leave one out.

Tier 1 – Differentiated Instruction that uses evidence based core curriculum instruction. This level is given to all students and is effective to 80-85% of the students. The 15% of students who are not effective in this tier move on to tier 2.

Tier 2 - This tier builds on tier 1 using more strategic based intervention that helps students. As previously mention in tier 1 this group is about 15% of all students. These students work in small classroom groups with the teacher or a teacher’s assistant. The work that they work on is only a supplement of the core curriculum, so these students are getting additional help on top of the work given in tier 1. For example in tier 1 they work on 90 minutes of reading and in tier 1 they will receive an additional 30 minutes of RTI extension in a small group.  However there will still be 5% of students who need additional help in tier 2 that need to move to tier 3.

Tier 3 – Intensive evidence based instruction given to a very small group of students.  This can be provided to students one to one or a small group out side the class. A specialist or special Ed teacher can assist these students with directed instruction. A small portion of these students may need to go further and be required special Ed services.  As well students do not need to be disabled to require these tier services.

Questions:

Based on student’s observations and working with students they always ask why they have to do more of the same work they just did while they were pulled out. Just recently a child did 30 minutes of math with a one to one teacher, had to come back to the classroom to do more math problems and he didn’t want to. How would I keep this student engaged to do more?

For classes who do not have an additional teacher how can you keep your one to’ one of small group focus? I find this will be a challenge.



Sunday, February 12, 2017

Week 3 -Assignment 3


  What is QRI5?
The QRI5 is an individual administered informal reading inventory designed to provide information about, conditions under where students can identify words. As well as comprehend text and conditions that appear to results in unsuccessful word identification or comprehension. In addition it helps to identify reading levels, independent, instructions and frustration.


  What is the purpose of using QRI5?
The purpose of using the QRI5 is to provide information for designing and evaluating intervention instruction. As well to get students reading levels, put students in groups for guided reading sessions, have students and teachers choose appropriate books for literacy during circle time and independent reading.

  Have you seen similar assessment activities like QRI5? What are they?
The only similar activity I have seen and did like the QRI5 is a running record. It is similar because it students have to read different books and passages to measure there reading level. With the results students can be given extra help and the teacher can focus on groups the students belong in together. It also helps teachers prepare for assessments and exams students have.

  What is your impression of QRI5?

I honestly like the QRI5, because it is very informative and you get to gather great results from it. I also like that each grade level has a different measures. To me the best part of the QRI5 is that it can be done at an early grade from k- 12. Students receiving help at an early especially for reading and comprehension can help long term.

Week 3- Assignment 2

Discuss what assessments are needed to measure students' learning outcomes and how teachers can address these common core learning standards if you have students of various reading levels

Different measures of assessment can be used for students to monitor their learning outcomes. Formative and summative methods can be use to asses many different students depending on what is being taught. As well each of these assessments will comply with common core learning outcomes.

      Quizzes
      Discussions ( In large or small groups)
      Open ended questions
      Reflections on texts or literature that has been read or they are reading
      Groups projects or individual projects involving technology

Teachers can address common core standards by providing

      One to one with students on a weekly basis
      Setting groups with students have different strengths and weakness, so each students can learn from one another, or set groups the teacher can sit with at different times.
      Give students guidance while using technologies and show them different ways they can use it to their advantage.




Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Reading Blog- What you should know? Week 2 Assignment 3

I enjoyed all these videos, I even notice I do some of these with my son while we are at home or out. He is only one and saying some words but why not let him hear the sounds and letters now to develop words in the coming months of him speaking. Becoming and familiarizing children with prints are very important especially that they are so many options to give these students.
Print Awareness- Saying the latter, the sound and giving an example of a word. So for example I usually say to my son A for Ariyen (his name) or A for Apple. He gets really excited and smile, so now every time I say a letter he waits for me to say a word and response. At a very early age children learn by sound, visual images, pictures, and interaction. It is very important to express language while speaking and playing.
Phoneme Swapping/ Word Games- This games worked out really well in the video and I can see myself do this in my future classroom. I thought the students in the 3rd grade swapping letters with the letter ‘A’ was very unique and a great development for vocabulary. Semantic radiance is great as well because it expands student’s vocabulary and great for sentence structure and an expandable vocabulary.

Overall I enjoyed all the videos because it’s something I have taken notes on and will hopefully incorporate in my future classroom. There are so many ways to help students learn to read, expand vocabulary and so forth. 

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I’m a very fun and bubbly person so I laugh at a lot of things, I however do not have a favorite joke because I laugh at just about everything. HAHHA! If I were to write a book about myself I would title it, “ Introducing Erika, Reggie & Ariyen: The crazy edition”.
I been teaching for years birth -2 and doing internship with grades 1-6. I’m currently not teaching and working in an office until I find a job at a school. I feel like this is my only concern taking the course is not being able to relate the information to students in my own class. So far I have been in the program for 3 semesters and cannot wait to be done. =) With previous courses and my internships  I’m very familiar with language arts and new literacies and cannot wait to continue to learn more.

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