Week 5 Application Assignment Analysis

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For this Week 5 Application assignment, I was expected to develop a lesson plan for an emergent literacy learner. Within the lesson plan there were three key components that I needed to focus on. First, I was expected to include the lesson foundations which included learning objectives and a text set that meets my objectives. Next, I needed to describe my lesson sequence that incorporated research-based instructional practices to support the objectives. Then, I needed to create a lesson summary that showed how I shifted the responsibility to the student to work independently and explain how I collected the data. Finally, I had to implement the lesson and analyze the data. For my Week 2 assignment I chose an emergent learner to observe and evaluate. For purposes of confidentiality, he will be referred to as “Samuel” within this report. Samuel’s background is American and Egyptian, however he only speaks English at home. His teacher used Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) to determine his literacy level. He performs at level 6 (slightly below beginning grade 1 level), which …show more content…
McLachlan & Arrow (2016) agree that both phonemic awareness and alphabetic principle are vital in the development of children in their path to become competent readers (as cited in Reutzel & Cooter, p. 115).
Another way to test the skill is through the use of expressive rhyme (Wren, S., Litke, B., Jinkins, D., Paynter, S., Watts, J. & Alanis, I., 2013). I asked him to rhyme words and then to choose words that rhyme out of a set. He struggled to do come up with more than one rhyme even when I gave him examples on how to make the rhymes. “The child's ability to rhyme reflects an appreciation of the sounds within words, and an implicit understanding that words are made up of sounds” (Wren, et al. 2013). Based on this informal assessment, I can assume that he has not mastered his phonemic