Week 2:1 Assessment Driven Instruction

How does this activity engage students who are at different levels of literacy development?

The activity provides students an opportunity at different levels various activities to practice their literary skills. Some of the activities include a shared reading component which allows them to work on their oral language and develop their vocabulary. For students to achieve mastery of the English language, the introduction of the words must be seamless. Ms. Perez introduces a word wall in which students may reference. Students associate the words they learn by referencing vowels and Consonants through phonological awareness and encouraging students and using rhyming.

During her explicit phonics lesson, how does Ms. Perez support students' problem-solving skills?

During the phonics lesson, Ms. Perez provides support to students by using common everyday animals and previous lesson plans and activities as a reference tool for student who are having difficulty. In addition, she encourages students by encouraging them by sounding out words together and asking fellow classmates to help when they have difficulty solving.

Based on what you saw in the video, what are the different ways that shared reading can be used to promote literacy?

Shared reading can help with word identification, students begin to remember words and use words that they’ve seen/read previously as a reference when sounding out new words. In addition, it develops their oral speaking skills and they feel successful when they can connect the relationship. Sound sequencing allows them to strengthen their fluency/automaticity.

Why does she think it's important for students to verbalize their strategies? What else do you notice about how she helps students build meaning in text?

Ms. Perez utilizes the assessment of students verbalizing their strategies because it allows students to expand their vocabulary and to make connection to the text. By connecting the strategies, it’s easier for students to understand the reason she uses these assessments and allows students to think and connect the text to the actual words and the acknowledge the steps they take to understanding the text. By masking the text, it challenges the students to breakdown a sentence and work one on one with students to identify their needs.

How does Ms. Perez organize her classroom to support a wide range of learners?

Ms. Perez organizes her classroom by utilizing her co-teacher by developing a writing extension that allows students to practice on various words that allow them to identify words that have the same letters. In addition, she has a game that provides students an opportunity to match words and a making words activities, students utilize letters to develop words like the sound they are working on perfecting. These activities are a great way to keep students engaged and practice their awareness and knowledge of context clues.

How are reading and writing connected in classroom activities?

In the classroom, reading and writing are connected significantly because as students are writing, they are learning new words and expanding on their writing capabilities. For example, by participating in the masking activity, student’s pick-up on the context and connect the meaning of the word used in the sentence and have an example of ways they may use it in their future writing.

How does Ms. Perez use ongoing individual assessment to guide her instruction? How can the class profile be used to help group students and differentiate instruction?

Ms. Perez use ongoing individual assessment to guide her instructions by finding out the area in which students struggle the most in. Once she’s identified the areas of weakness, she develops activities for the student to practice and strength the area that need improvement. I believe Ms. Perez’s methods are ideal as they allow students to grow and keep them engaged, when I shadowed 1^st grade students last year, I realized that many of the students struggled to

How can ongoing assessment be integrated into your own classroom practice?

By utilizing stations, students can work in smaller groups and work off each other strengths and expand on their abilities. I loved the masking activity and the matching endings with photos by the rhymes. I look forward to using both in my classroom to further assess the development of students writing and reading abilities. I noticed in the past when I observed in the classroom, stations were an important way to get students on different levels in various categories to expand their learning.