Practicum 4

Module Four Practicum Exemplar

EC-6 Reading Language Arts Course – Practicum Four Exemplar

The teacher gave him a “Told” on the word “They” on page 3 so this error would be a visual error.

Also on page 3 the student read “sow” for “saw” which is a visual error, but then self-corrected the word when he realized that did not make syntactical sense. The self-correction is a Structure (syntax) correction. On page 5 he read “I can see a lot tr-trucks” for “I can see a little train” which would be coded as visual errors since it has the same initial letter. If the student had said “I can see a lot of trucks” it would have made sense (coded as a meaning error) and been syntactically correct (coded as a structure error) but “lot trucks” does not make syntax sense.

The teacher gave him a “Told” on the words “with”, “hello” and “saw” on pages 6 & 7. These would be analyzed as visual errors.

Mikey read “with” on page 9 then reread that line and self-corrected.

Analysis:

The student’s errors demonstrate that he is relying primarily on visual clues and does not try and use the meaning of the story to help him decode words. He does monitor his reading occasionally which is demonstrated by his two self-corrections. When he is monitoring his reading he relying on the structure of the language to tries to make the sentence sound correct.

This student’s accuracy rate on this reading level is 94% which is instructional level for him.

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