Journal #3 "Mommy RTI"-Boring Assessment Data

October 2, 2013: My Academic Assessment Data on K.C.

Every student that enters my program is evaluated- and from that data I create goals to reach within 20 hours of instruction.

I felt the need to treat my son like any other client- I needed benchmarks to set goals from.

K.C's academic progress in the areas of Reading Skills, Reading Fluency , Word Attack Skills and Phonological Skills. The results of this diagnostic dated, September 29, 2013, are described below.

K.C is able to identify all of the letters of the alphabet.

In a sound/symbol assessment, K.C. is unable to correctly identify the sounds of:

·        X, V, KN, PH

·        K

·        V

·        KN

·        PH

·        QU

·        CH

·        WH

·        TH

·        DGE

·        TCH

·        CK

·        All Diphthongs (oi/oy, au/aw, ou/ow, oo)

·        Vowel Teams (ee/ai/ay/oa/oe/ue/ui, etc.)

·        All Suffixes

K.C’s Reading scores indicate that he has difficulty reading words with one syllable cVc words like; fit, fun, pal, and also exhibits difficulty with words that have blends (e.g., glad, stamp) and words with suffixes, diphthongs, and vowel teams.  He has a very short sight word vocabulary.  When administered a sight word screener, K.C. was only able to read 87 words of the 150 most common words found in the English Language.          

The Spelling Inventory administered to K.C. revealed that he has some phonics skills to spell one syllable cVc words, but not with words that contain blends and consonant digraphs. K.C.’s responses suggest that has no knowledge of spelling rules, suffixes and is not familiar with the spelling of sight words.  

K.C. was administered a DRA Level 3-4 passage, Reading A-Z Level C (Fountas and Pinnell C, Grade K, Reading Recovery equivalent 3-4) on September 29^th. He reached frustration at this level, having an Error Rate of 1:9, Accuracy Rating of 88%.

His reading fluency rate was 20 words per minute.

DIBELS Data: Administered September 2014 @ Hornung Elementary

§  Non-sense word Fluency (Correct Letter Sounds):  40/142 or 28%

§  Nonsense Word Fluency (Correct Words)- 2/50 or 4%

§  Dibels Oral Reading Fluency-Words Correct:  19 Words Per Minute