Seth M-Reading Narrative Assessment May 2015

Learner: Seth M                    Learning Coach: Margaret Patrick     Date:  May 2015

Learning Area:  English- Reading Narrative Assessment

Learning Observed

Seth chose the text “Carnival Time” for his PM Benchmark Level 21 reading assessment. Seth is oral but uses key signs in English word order as he reads. I introduced the word carnival to him and he related it to a fair where people go and look around at what’s happening.  He relayed to me that he had been to a carnival and could describe the floats being pulled along by cars or trucks. He was able to skim the text and use his word attack skills to say the name of the town ”Mayberry”. He had quick recognition of the high frequency words and accurately decoded topic specific vocabulary eg:  parade, floats, costumes, streamers. He used the context and meaning to insert substitute words rather than read the words in the text in a couple of occasions. eg: kid for child and every for always. These didn’t interrupt the flow or meaning of the story and went unnoticed by Seth. He mostly used a natural rhythm and intonation except when he was focusing on producing the correct sounds in words. Seth continues to need prompting to “tell me more” during his retell of the story. The ability to retell a story including lots of details has been one of his previous IEP goals. Seth still needed to refer to the text for this. HIs ability to find answers to inferential questions has improved and he scored 3/3 correct. He accurately explained the applied knowledge question drawing on his own prior experience.

Evidence of learning                        Seth-Reading view video May 2015

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Last year Seth moved up 5 reading levels so after moving school I tried testing him at Level 21. Seth scored 98% reading accuracy, 83% comprehension and 73% retell using the PM benchmark Reading Assessment and VADEC Formal Retell.  He is beginning to identify the clues that help him make inferences.This text was easy for Seth and he is ready to move to Level 22 and possibly Level 23. He is demonstrating and developing his capabilities in Thinking and Using Language, Symbols and text.

Next Learning Steps

complete a retell without needing to refer to the text. develop intonation including speaking the endings of words. observe punctuation (speech marks) to help him with voice changes from character to storyteller. increase his VADEC retell score to75% at the  next level. pay attention to words using structural and visual clues to achieve higher accuracy.