EDU 371: Phonics Based Reading & Decoding week 2 assignment

Erick, a male student, in my elementary class, is an aspiring reader who has just began grasping the basic concepts of books and prints. Occasionally one sees him getting hold of alphabet and he has the ability to identify and name upper and lower case letters. He is also able to recognize phonemes, syllables and rhymes.

In his spoken and written languages he is slowly learning sound and symbol relationship commencing with consonants and short vowels. He also has the capability of reading consonant-vowel-consonants words and high frequency words. He is strongly enriched in books especially picture books and he enjoys that experience and he seems comfortable with the picture books.

Erick also has the ability to carefully control text in his reading. He also has the capability of identifying repetitive patterns in words. He also has a strong control of repeated vocabulary. In his writing, he has a wide letter spacing which makes him to have limited text on each page.

Work Cited:

Pacific education for resources and learning. (2012). Stages of reading development. Retrieved from