Use Table 1.1 “Summary of Proficient and Less Proficient Reading Behaviors” to observe a reader. Highlight the characteristics you notice and provide an example of what you see.
The student I have focused on, exhibits many of the qualities of a less than proficient reader. I was able to determine this based upon pretests. The young boy has good phonemic awareness and is on target for the beginning of first grade. However, he struggles with decoding the words and putting together the phonemes that he knows. He attempts to identify all of the words correctly, however, he often mispronounces correspondences between letters and their sounds. Because of his slow decoding, like the girl in the video, he struggles with being able to comprehend what he reads. When I spend time asking comprehension questions, he often doesn't remember the majority of what the book or story was about. he relies heavily on visual information, using the pictures to guide what the words might be or what the story is about. He also doesn't use punctuation to guide his inflections in reading. He reads very monotone and doesn't use those clues to help with reading questions or exclamations. This student is able to recognize a miscues when he pronounces a word that doesn't sound like it would fit in the sentence. These are all characteristics of a less than proficient reader found in Optiz's text. I think there are many ways in which I can help this reader become a proficient reader. This student needs extra instruction in learning correspondences, specifically of vowels. He also would benefit from read-alouds in order to hear what a good reader sounds like. I think he has the potential to be a proficient reader, he just needs more instruction in phonics, decoding, and comprehension.
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