Week 6- Assignment 1

Based on Mary’s assessment results and as mentioned before in the prior assignments, Mary needs to continue sounding out the words in her reading exercises more consistently whenever she hits reading roadblocks that hindered her in two of her last assignments. By allowing herself to sound out the words, it would give Mary the opportunity to correctly pronounce any word she’s unfamiliar with. If Mary were in the class I was teaching, my way to help her achieve conquering her literacy weaknesses would be to break the class up into smaller groups, which in turn would allow me to have more of a direct one-on-one teaching lesson with her. As a result, this method would end up instilling more confidence in Mary to properly sound out words she’s having trouble with. This would also be in conjunction with having her repeat the words after the exercise is done as a sure-fire way to instill in her brain the correct pronunciation of words that were giving her the mental roadblocks to her reading. The length of intervention, would be for half an hour each day and I would continue this cycle for a month. If no vast improvement is made, I would be willing to extend for however long it takes until Mary is able to conquer her literacy weaknesses. The mini-lesson plans as goes:

                                                      Mini-Lesson Plan

   
1) Go over with Mary her reading troubles for about 30 minutes (while the class is broken up into small groups).

      

2) Help Mary sound out words she’s having trouble with.

  

3) As a refresher’s course, get Mary to repeat certain words she’s previously had trouble with after the            entire exercise is done. This once again is done as a way to get her to remember words she said                    previously in the exercise (It’s basically repetition being used as a strategic tactic to enable Mary to                read the words properly).

4) Ask Mary if there are any questions after the entire exercise is done or if there’s anything overall that             she’s unsure of in the reading.

5) This lesson plan would be executed to go on for roughly about one month but would willingly extend that       time frame if I had to, especially if it’s in regard to Mary’s reading abilities.