Wednesday April 6th - administered one QRI reading assessment. The word lists indicated Jane is on a 3rd grade reading level. As I had prepared photocopies of five different 3rd grade reading selections, I made the mistake of offering Jane her choice from all five selections. I think she was a bit overwhelmed with the various choices. The next time I administer the QRI I will ensure to limit the choices to just two reading selections. Jane finally chose "A Birthday Present for Rosa". Jane was shy and read with a soft spoken voice. I think I have built up somewhat of a rapport with her but she was still kind of shy. As the ESL teacher mentioned, Jane did not open her mouth much to enunciate her words. This affects her pronunciation. As she was the only student in the room it was not as difficult to hear the student as it would be if there were other students and/or noise in the room.
Jane's reading characteristics - she had trouble with similar words like though, tough, through. Student mispronounced the name Jose' but the name may have been unfamiliar to her. The student left the letter "s" off of some words but not others. However the meaning of the content did not change. When offered a look back Jane did look at the story but was just kind of scanning the page. It seemed like she was waiting to be prompted in some way. She did not offer any new information during the look back. I found scoring the re-telling portion of the assessment a little difficult. As Jane rattled off what she remembered from the story, there were multiple phrases for very similar ideas on the scoring sheet. I'm sure with more practice, it will become easier.
After administering the QRI, there was time left over in the period. The ESL teacher and I decided it would be smart to wait until the next session to administer the second QRI. With the remaining minutes of this period, the ESL teacher introduced Jane to some illustrated books and student-created projects on idioms. Some examples were "bright eyed and bushy tailed" and " "Jane liked to 'lock horns'". The student browsed through the book and chose an expression, then had a choice to draw or clip pictures from a magazine to help illustrate the meaning of the expression.
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