Strengths:
Gabby is a very enthusiastic 4th grade student with a fun and silly personality. She enjoys interacting with her classmates and likes to make her friends laugh. When she is on task, her enthusiasm helps her to stay engaged and participate. She benefits from receiving consistent positive feedback and a reward system as she often times has difficulty with work completion due her difficulties with staying on task. When Gabby receives positive feedback for completing her work, she demonstrates pride in her accomplishments and greater determination to continue working.
Present Level of Academic Achievement
On the AIMSweb Reading Curriculum Based Measurement, Gabby scored 9 Words Read Correct (WRC) with 14 errors from grade 4 passages
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She demonstrates difficulty conceptualizing mathematical skills and struggles understand the value of numbers, what it means to add and subtract or how math skills are related. In the area of place value, Gabby has been working with tens and ones. She can accurately identify which place is the tens place and which is the ones, but does not show understanding of the value of what the number in each place represents. For example, if shown the number “25,” Gabby does not recognize that the “2” in the tens place represents a value of “20” and that the “5” in the ones place has a value of “5.”
In the area of counting, Gabby is able to count by 1’s and 10’s, but has difficulty counting by 10’s and then continuing to count on by 1’s. She also has difficulty identifying or creating equally sized groups of five or ten and then accurately counting
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She has difficulty differentiating lower case letters from capital letters and will often put capital letters in the middle of a word. When Gabby is attempting to write multiple sentences, it is challenging for her to organize her ideas, stay on topic, develop supporting details and transition from one sentence to the next. Due to the many challenges that she has with writing, she requires one on one support to complete writing tasks.
FUNCTIONAL
11/17
Gabby does demonstrate functional difficulties within the classroom, but does all right with support. She understands the basic classroom routines and expectations, but struggles greatly with organization and often does not know what materials she needs for each subject. Gabby requires assistance with determining what materials are needed and when to use them appropriately.
Nathan Ramp
Special Education Teacher
Adverse Effects
11/17
Gabby's ability to master regular classroom academic objectives is significantly delayed. She requires small group or one-on-one instruction and repetition to learn skills. In order to complete classroom assignments she needs incentives, continual prompts to stay on task and simple, concrete instructions. In order to have academic success in the classroom, Gabby requires modifications and adaptations to the curriculum and materials in all