November 25th Blog Post

I have enjoyed learning about assessments through some of this weeks readings. I am going to

discuss in detail the article written by Lose. This article was very eye opening in regards to the necessary qualifications and dedication that a teacher must have to help a child's literacy development. The IDEA allowed 15% of funds to be spent on Special Education funds for Early Intervening Services and support professional development and literacy instruction. RTI stands for Response To Intervention and can be used without labeling students at risk for school failure as learning disabled. Assessments given must appropriately explore a child's knowledge sources and previous literacy experience.

Individualized teaching is crucial to a students improvement all the time, but especially to low performing students. Different teachers teach reading in different ways. It is so important that as a teacher you are able to tailor the way you teach based on individual students' needs.  What are some ways that teachers you have worked with or that you had growing up tailored their teaching to low performing students? Do you think this will be a challenge in your future classroom?

I found these free handouts of Pinterest and I think they are great for assessing students reading skills, especially at a younger age. There is a handout for capital letters, one for lowercase letters, one for letter sound recognition, and one for sight word recognition. There are also ones for rhyming words, syllables, and word blending. I personally think that these would be great to use in the classroom and I encourage you all to take a look!
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3kz82tO60uZU0pNTHJHcnlSYjJEV2xydWRWWHFwUQ/preview