Tutoring Presentation
Transcript: m 1 2 p b Y g X F Tutoring Presentation: Kamryn Kamryn Kamryn is a 2nd grader with a DRA level of 4. She is friendly, positive, and extremely outgoing. Fortunately, she genuinely enjoys reading, both individually and with others. However, there were some challenges I faced while tutoring Kamryn. She often has difficulty staying on task, is easily distracted, and is easily frustrated. This occasionally made tutoring difficult, so it took a lot of extra effort to keep her attention. Kamryn E Running Record After analyzing the running record, I was able to identify the areas in which Kamryn excels. She read the Primer passage "The Pig Who Learned to Read". During the running record and the word lists, I noticed that she is good at identifying the initial and final consonants in words. This shows a strong understanding of phonics, however her biggest strength was identification of sight words. She showed automaticity in reading high frequency sight words such as beacuse, best, they, live, friend, play, there, thought, and animals. This is helpful, as it allows her to read more fluently and therefore better comprehend what she is reading. Strengths The running record also highlighted some areas in which Kamryn could improve. I noticed during the assesments and our tutoring sessions that she tends to read too quickly, often skipping words or substituting them for words that she knows. When she doesn't know a word, Kamryn looks at the initial consonant or onset and then says a word she knows that begins with the same initial consonant. For example, while reading to me she said "almost" when the word was "also". During the running record she also said "love" instead of "loved" and "want" instead of "wanted". These mistakes show that she could use some improvement in regards to the analysis of word structure, particularly decoding longer, multi-syllable words Weaknesses D Comprehension Strengths In regards to Kamryn's strengths, she often relates texts to herself and her own experiences. When she read the passage "The Pig Who Learned to Read" she told me about the time her family went to a farm and got to pet all of the animals. She often makes connections like this while we read during our tutoring sessions as well. This shows, at least to some extent, enagement of schema. Strengths In regards to Kamryn's weaknesses, I determined that she could use the most improvement in literal comprehension. During the assessments I noticed that she tended to read very quickly, which prevented her from fully comprehending the passage she was reading. This was evident during the retelling and question portions of the assessment. When asked, Kamryn was unable to recall many of the key details of the passage. She was also unsure of the order in which all the events of the story occured, only understanding the main idea of the passage. She answered some of the explicit questions correctly, but struggled with the implicit questions. Weaknesses C Standards, Activities, and More! Standards - I chose to focus my tutoring lessons on comprehension, particularly literal comprehension. It is important for Kamryn to first have the ability to literally comprehend what she is reading before she can progress to more advanced levels of reading comprehension. - The standards that I chose to address throughout my tutoring sessions are "Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding" and "Ask and answer questions such as who, what, when, where, and why" - I chose to mostly incorporate activities that allowed Kamryn to practice retelling and recalling important details of a text. - In many of the activities we played games that required Kamryn to answer who, what, when, and where questions about various stories. I presented the activities as games because Kamryn is more engaged and motivated when she is having fun. - I also Included other activities that were intended to strengthen her literal comprehension, particularly ones that focused on key details and plot. Activities Student Work On one of our last days of tutoring, I read Kamryn two similar Mo Willems books. She was able to determine the main points of both stories, as well as compare similarities and differences in the stories. B Final Thoughts Final Thoughts - Throughout the course of tutoring, Kamryn has made some minor improvements, specifically regarding comprehension. - Though they were presented differently, the activities we did each day involved similar questions about the plot and key details of stories. By the end of tutoring her responses to these questions were far more detailed than they were when I first began working with her. - I believe that we were able to improve Kamryn's literal comprehension, however there are still things she can continue to work on. Final Thoughts Cont. - While Kamryn has definitely shown progress in reading comprehension, there is still room for improvement. - To continue developing comprehension skills, there are a number of strategies Kamryn -
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