Analysis
Allie is fourth grader who typically reads on or above a fourth grade reading level. Allie was asked to read a list of names as if she was calling roll. As she was reading the names, I took notes on the items she missed. There were a total of 70 names and Allie missed a total of six overall. Allie scored 99% on her initial consonant words. A consonant is a speech sound that is not a vowel. It also refers to letters of the alphabet that represent those sounds: …show more content…
During the test, Allie stated that she thought this was going to be Jenny spelled differently. Gene has the silent “e” pattern. Although she missed only one, it would not hurt Allie to freshen up on silent e words. Allie scored 100% on initial consonant blend words. This occurs when 2 or 3 consonants are found together at the beginning of a word, and each one is sounded separately. She is very strong in this area, along with consonant digraphs, short vowel sounds, Long vowel sound or Vowel-consonant-e words, and schwa sounds. The schwa sound is the most common vowel sound in the English language. It simply sounds like “uh” when using in a word. All the areas mentioned above, Allie scored 100% with 70/70 correct. Vowel digraphs are the second area where Allie missed four names, but she scored 94% overall. Vowel digraphs are combination of vowels that combine to make a single vowel sound. Allie’s first mispronounced word was Joan and she pronounced it Jone. The OA sound makes the sound like OA in boat and follows the CVVC pattern. CVVC stands for consonant vowel vowel consonant. The second name was Swain and she pronounced swan. The ai makes the sound like rain. The next mispronounced word was Loomis, which she