Tutoring Session #1

Had a lot of fun meeting Franz today.

• He was able to read the new book "Go Spot Go" all by himself without help.
• He pointed to the words and corrected himself once—missed a word and went back and reread.
• Worked on vowel letter sounds and played game to find them in words. He said "e" like in "egg" when he found it during the game.

I'll be back next Monday.

This is all a test, btw...my Special Ed in Technology class rocks! Having fun and switching to personal blogging now. ;) Oh, hey, today is my birthday. HA!

Classroom Notes

+ He has his one-to-one correspondence down.
+ Knows all his letter names and could find them when he was "reading around the room" during centers this week.

DRA reading level 1.

Challenges: Franz assessments show that he's having trouble with some of his vowel sounds (/e/ and /i/) in isolation. He is inventing text or guessing when reading CVC words.

Suggestions: He will need help working on identifying his vowel sounds (just the short /e/ this week). Sounding out CVC words. I will leave appropriate new books for him to read in his reading box. See what he can do on his own with one book. Give him positive feedback on something he did well, and then give him one tip to practice that deals with short /e/ in word or looking at the first sound of a word.