Collins chapter 6/7

First of all… those pictures in the book by the students – adorable. Ok, these chapters were really great for me to read while working with my case study student. She is in fifth grade; however, she can be considered an emergent reader and writer. Her IEP indicates a speech problem which has caused a delay in her phonemic awareness and development. She particularly struggles with vowel sounds, which are pretty tricky if I do say so myself. However, this chapter gave great insight into how she is thinking and different ways that I can help her. One thing that was mentioned in the book was a technology aspect that made me think about books on tape for her. She struggles with reading because she gets caught up on words that she does not immediately recognize, can not pronounce correctly to give her something that sounds like a word she has heard before, and then she looses the impact of the story. Books on tape would be a great way for her to not only work on comprehending the story, but she can also see how words that she struggles with are actually pronounced.

I also LOVED the invitation for the classroom parts from these chapters. The one about flipbooks are really great for my case study student. During her reading intervention time, she is working on different word families and creating words from them. With these flip books, she could practice them and then having something fun to show for it. The sequencing questions and how do you know invitation for the classroom sections are great as well to work on her comprehension of stories. However, her main area of focus is comprehension while she is reading something so the activities would need to be individual and not whole group or they would need to be modified for that reason.