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Michael Hosti
READ 366 Early Literacy
Assessment
correctly finger pointed and read all 4 of the sentences, and only had
trouble with the 1st target word of the 3rd sentence (water). Although
she struggled a bit on the 3rd sentence, I felt that she read the other
sentences with confidence.
Next was a task that tested G*s spelling. I read 6 spelling words
aloud to her, and asked her to write them, reminding her to think about
which sound comes first, which comes next, etc. She was graded based
on the rubric given in the assessment, and scored 3 points on each of
the 6 words, totaling at 18 out of a possible 20 points.
The last component of the assessment was a word-recognition
task. G* was simply asked to read 10 words as I pointed to each one
individually, the first 5 being frequently occurring sight words, and the
last 5 being short-vowel, decodable words.. She successfully read each
of the 10 words, to score 10 out of 10 points. G* was confused why I
didnt ask her to write the words as well as read them, and decided
that she wanted to write them as well, which I allowed her to do.
From this assessment, I concluded that G* is in the beginning
reader stage of literacy development. The component of the
assessment that I feel best illustrated this was the spelling task. G*
successfully wrote the first consonant and last consonant sound in
each of the words, which is a characteristic of the beginning reader
stage. Another indicator was her ability to track each word by pointing
Michael Hosti
READ 366 Early Literacy
Assessment
to it with her finger as she read, another characteristic of this stage.
her ability to recognize the sight words in the word-recognition task
was also an indicator of the beginning stage.
At this stage of literacy development, there are many different
activities that could be used to increase her reading ability. Sight word
activities are great for beginning readers, and the goal should be to get
their number of known sight words to increase. Adding words
incrementally as she learned them would be the best way to achieve
this. Another activity that would be very useful are activities regarding
beginning and ending consonant sounds. On
www.interactivesites.weebly.com, there are many literacy games on
the computer that focus on just that, and are perfect for a reader at
her stage. Having G* read simple text with some repetition, focusing
on reading fluently would also be a great way to help her advance in
her development.