Jessica Wojcik

Literary Assessment

For my literary assessment my cooperating teacher and I decided on the student

in her class that was the lowest reader. I am placed in first grade. When I took him to
the table to work with me he looked very disconnected and had not even started yet.
For the alphabet task my student could recognize al but 5 letters total for capital
and lower case letters. He made consistent errors of writing U instead of the actual
letter. I think he just wasnt interested and was not trying too hard. Some reversals
were used, which is not uncommon in this age.
The concept of word task, he struggled. He did not point to most of the words
when reading the sentences aloud. He could only point to the easiest sentence that
read, She sees a big dog. I think he only got this one because it was the easiest.
When it came to saying specific targeted words he had considerable trouble. The
whole time we were doing this task he was very antsy and would not sit still.
Next was the spelling task. By this point my student was very disengaged and
kept saying he did not want to do it. I offered a compromise where he would tell me
how to spell the word and I would write it down. He did beautifully. He knew all the
end consonants and even some medial vowels.
I am assuming he knew how to do the majority of these tasks but he was just
being lazy. When it came to the word recognition in isolation, he consistently
guessed the word based as the initial consonant.

This students performance was a bit contradictory. For example, his performance
on the concept of word task was relatively weak. Yet his spelling was strong and
indicates a concept of word. He appeared disinterested and antsy throughout the
testing. Nevertheless, he did so well on the spelling that he very likely has a concept
of word. If so, he is a beginner reader. If not he is still in the emergent stage.
Regardless, he will benefit with repeated readings of simple ready-to-read texts.
Pattern books are also an opportunity to support his concept of word.