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CI 5413/5414
May 8th, 2015
Case Study Report
Student Name: Sofia
Grade: 3
Preservice Teacher: Ms. Gleason
Background Information
Sofia is currently a third grade student at Creek Valley Elementary. She
is confident in her reading abilities and enjoys reading. Sofia has expressed
that she values reading and so does her family, whom she often reads with
at home. She enjoys discussing books she is currently reading or has read
before. Her favorite genre of books is mysteries and she has read several
different series. While Sofia can be shy and slow to open up at first, she likes
to talk about her family dog, her friends, and what she does on the
weekends. I have worked with Sofia individually over the course of 10 weeks,
with one one-hour session per week. We have focused on word work
activities for harder suffixes, writing with correct punctuation, reading Frindle
and Spotlight Club Mysteries, and conducted several assessments related to
literacy development. I believe Sofia is currently in the upper transitional
stage moving into the intermediate developmental stage of literacy learning.
Assessments
#1Motivation to Read Profile
The Motivation to Read Profile is composed of two parts, the reading
survey and the conversational interview. The questions on both assessments
relate to the students self-concept as a reader and how they value reading.
The purpose of the profile is to reveal students attitudes, interests, and
has features for ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency,
and conventions within three different levels of mastery (1, 3, 5). For the
majority of features within the categories Sofia scored a 3. For
conventions, some features are in the 1 category due to missing
punctuation and paragraphing. This related to a feature in the sentence
fluency because it caused sentences to be rambling or awkward and
phrasing was not natural (1). In the ideas category she scored a few
features within the 5 category because the topic was narrow and she
included reasonably accurate details.
This assessment shows that one of Sofias strengths in writing is her
ideas. She is able to choose a focus and include details with a prompt. She
also had varying sentence structures and has some individual perspective
present within the narrative. One of her challenges is conventions, because
there was a lot of punctuation missing that affected the sentence fluency.
She had a lot of run-on sentences and did not include any commas. She also
missed a lot of prepositions. However, she did spell most words correctly.
Based on these results recommendations could include focusing on
conventions, especially punctuation, in future lessons. I think looking at
comma and period usage during reading could be helpful for learning how
and why punctuation is used in context. Another option could be practicing
editing her own writing together to have her identify her own usage errors.
Writers workshop practice with pieces for different purposes, audiences, and
lengths will help to continue to improve and refine all writing features.
through work with synonyms and antonyms and picking out difficult
vocabulary from texts to study more in depth. Vocabulary knowledge can
also be increased as she moves through the late syllables and affixes stage
by looking at harder suffixes and common roots and making word trees.
As far as writing, future instruction might include a focus on the editing
aspect of the writing process as well as developing a personal voice and
including more colorful vocabulary. Through the combination of assessment
results, I know that punctuation can be a challenge for Sofia. Just as she
often reads over it in text, she often skips over it or uses it incorrectly within
her writing. Using mentor texts and modeling editing for punctuation will
help to improve this skill. Studying the craft of the authors voice and how to
include that in your own writing could be helpful. Also, as her fluency with
reading increases it will help to improve her writing. Working with vocabulary
development throughout the three literacy aspects, especially working with
synonyms will help to improve her word choice in writing.
Overall, Sofia is a strong and hard working literacy student. I suggest
bringing in her interests such as her family and friends to have her open up
and engage her. From observations I know she enjoys reading out loud and
progressing her vocabulary knowledge. For writing, she can produce lengthy
independent pieces and is working on focusing on using all aspects of the
writing process to improve her writing. She is performing at grade level
within each of the five literacy essentials and will continue to make progress
through the use of assessment-based instruction.