In my classroom there are two students who are a few steps behind the other students in the classroom. My teacher chose them for my Reading Lessons. She told me that she has noticed that they are still struggling with phonemic awareness, word recognition and word identification. Those three areas are the areas she wants me to focus on for my Reading lessons. My teacher does not really know why these two students struggle in these areas, but I do know that they are the youngest kindergarteners in the classroom.
According to my teacher, Caleb* seems like he is babied at home. So when it comes to school work, his parents help him out a little too much. My MT makes the children do a lot of their work alone in school because she needs to assess what they know. She finds that when Caleb is in groups he messes around.
Caleigh* is WAY younger than all of the students. My teacher wonders if that is why she is so behind the other students. She is also a lot less mature. She works at a more slower pace than the rest of the class but gets her work done eventually. She is on the borderline of being held back.
My MT really did not say how to go about these lessons. However, she hardly teaches AT them, rather does a lot of games, worksheets, group work, etc. For the word identification and word recognition lesson, she gave me words to use and said since these go hand-in-hand to just do these two together. The readings assigned for this assignment really did not help me because a lot of them were about comprehension and connections. I used Pinterest and found ideas on there for my lessons.
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