Student A is a nine- year old English Language Leaner (ELL) attending the third grade and is in ESOL Level 3. She is currently reading on a first-grade level and is receiving reading intervention service. Her teacher has started the necessary process for the child's special education placement. The student seems to suffer from memory and expressive impairments. She was pleasant and cooperative during the assessment. Student A was able to finish the evaluation without frustration and she appeared to understand all of the instructions during the practice session.
The student was informally tested with a phonics inventory assessment. This analysis encompassed initial consonant sounds, phonics segmentation, blending onsets and rimes, and finally
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Have the student arrange the cards to make song lyrics and then identify the initial and ending sounds by clapping as she sings.
"My mom gave me some gum. Yum, yum! I put the gum in my mouth. Yum, yum. This gum is so yum, mom! I asked my mom, may I have some more gum, mom? My mom said, "not now Sam, I have to go buy some ham, jam, and spam for dinner.".
Activity 2: Identifying the initial phoneme and memory game.
Use picture cards with objects that start with the same sound. For example: ( mice, marbles), (nuts, needle), (soap, salad), and (fish, farm).
Mix up the cards and spread them all over a table face down. Have the child turn over a card and orally identify the initial sound (i.e. m-ice). Then have the child turn over another card to see if the picture starts with the same sound. If it does, have the child say the initial matching sound (i.e. m-arbles). If the card does not match, have the child turn over the card and keep looking for a match.
The child needs to pair all the initial sound cards together to win.
Activity 3: Phoneme Isolation game.
Have a bag of objects that initiate and end with the letters you want to practice the most (i.e. m, n, and