Literacy:
Rachel continues to orally articulate her thoughts and feelings from experiences in various literacy activities. She has explored various outputs such as writing, keyboarding, and video recording. Rachel is able to write or keyboard about two to three sentences independently. She attends to conventions by adding punctuation and having capital letters at the beginning of sentences. Rachel spells most high frequency words correctly and uses sounds to spell unfamiliar words. She benefits from using a timer, as she is more motivated and able to focus on the learning task. Writing tasks are still fatiguing for her and she does require a break thus extra time is beneficial. If the writing task is longer Rachel will choose to use photo booth in order to record her ideas. First she will discuss her ideas orally and they will be recorded on a personal whiteboard for her to then read it aloud. Rachel benefits from recording stories and then
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She demonstrates an understanding of place value from 0 to 100. Rachel has developed mental math strategies such as doubles, make ten, power of ten/nine and one more/less. When Rachel is unsure she will often use her fingers as a tool to support her. She has also explored double-digit addition and subtraction this year. Rachel is able to solve double-digit addition with or without regrouping independently. She also is comfortable solving subtraction without regrouping. Rachel sometimes like to use a hundreds chart as an aid. She continues to work the concept of subtraction with regrouping but is able to tell you the process. For math, Rachel benefits from having extra time or a scribe to record her process and answers. She does require encouragement and support to stay on task and complete it. Rachel is very respectful to others and actively listens to their contributions and will provide positive feedback for their