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SERP 301
Benchmark Part I
26 September 2017
In my classroom, the child that I have been focusing on, as my target student,
is a second grader named Ana (child’s name has been changed for her privacy). Ana
is seven years old and attends Hendricks elementary school. Ana has a specific
learning disability so she has an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) with goals and
Ana’s IEP also references her strengths and weaknesses in the classroom.
Through observations and looking at Ana’s IEP, I learned that when Ana is reading,
she loves to look at the pictures, she can give brief summaries of the stories after
they are read to her and can sound out most words correctly with support from an
adult. I have also noticed that Ana has difficulty with letter and sound recognition.
To help accommodate for this in the classroom, Ana has an alphabet chart at her
desk she can reference as well as access to a word bank of uncommonly used words.
Ana is also pretty good with writing conventions and usually remembers capitals,
punctuation, and spacing. She has very neat and legible writing but she does write
slowly.
Last year, Ana showed a lot of improvement with her timed addition math
facts. One of the things that Ana needs improvement on in math is her math
calculations and problem solving. In the classroom, we give Ana extra time to think
and use guiding questions when helping her solve math problems. Ana also has
access to a number line and hundreds chart that she can use to help her solve math
equations.
Something that is particularly interesting about Ana is how shy she is in class.
This is interesting because she is actually a very social child and has a lot of friends
at school. A lot of times children who are very social, like Ana, are chatty in class.
However, Ana does not participate in class discussions and does not ask questions in
front of the entire class. Instead, she will save her questions until she can work one
on one with a teacher. Ana will become even more shy and quiet when she is
struggling with class content. She will often lose visual contact and attention and it
seems like she is no longer actively listening. One of the accommodations that we
make for Ana is giving her additional time to express her thoughts and form
sentences. I am hoping that this additional time can help Ana gain the confidence
Ana has many goals included in her IEP that we would like to see completed
by February of 2018. In language arts, her goals are to increase her letter naming
ability to 57 letters per minute and to increase her ability to identify letter sounds to
ideas. We would also like to see improvement with Ana’s receptive language skills
vocabulary.
Ana also has goals regarding her math skills. By February, we are hoping that
we will see an improvement in counting by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s to 100. Additionally,
we would like to see Ana demonstrate improvement to add and subtract within 20.
Ana has additional accommodations that will help her in all subjects and
should be used for all class work, assignments, and assessments. These
accommodations are:
may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell or
the definition itself is very general. One child with a specific learning disability could
have a completely different set of diverse abilities as another child who also has a
specific learning disability. I think that this makes it even more important for us to
really get to know our students so we can know how to best accommodate them in
our classroom.
According to the Center for Parent Information and Resources, there are
some common accommodations used in the classroom that can help children with
smaller steps, giving the student more time for tests and classwork, and letting a
student with writing difficulties use a computer to help with spelling and grammar
accommodations and more to help Ana. However, one of the accommodations that
we are not using is letting her use a computer. As I mentioned previously, Ana has
really neat handwriting but she does write very slowly and has difficulties with
spelling. I am wondering if using some sort of computer to type would help Ana or if
it would hurt her because she would not get as much practice with writing by hand.
One of Ana’s biggest challenges is identifying letters and letter sounds. I think
this is one of her biggest challenges because it affects her ability to read and spell.
reading. It was very interesting because it talked about how the act of learning to
awareness activities to help children listen to the sounds that letters make instead
with easy words and slowly progress to harder words. I think these activities would
help Ana with her letter sound recognition because these types of activities would
break down the words for her. I think these activities would really help her reading
proficiency too because she can use these skills to help sound out the words
independently.
Resources
http://www.ldonline.org/article/Beginning_Reading
Learning Disabilities (LD). (2010, June 16). Retrieved September 26, 2017, from
http://www.parentcenterhub.org/ld/#teachers
http://www.asha.org/advocacy/federal/idea/04-law-specific-ld/