One of our assignments for field was to perform an ORF on the student we were tutoring at field. I could not complete this since he was completing tests all morning and I was not allowed to take him out of class. We were told if we could not complete this to write about how we think our student has progressed.
My student started the year as a shy unmotivated and unfocused student. We did repeated timed readings every week to work on his fluency, and he enjoyed completing these activities "it's like I'm competing against myself" his exact words. The other part of reading that my student struggled with was making inferences and comprehension in general. We worked on multiple strategies for working on comprehension, and he frequently was required to complete these activities at home. At the beginning he did not complete them but once we found out a strategy that would help him remember he started completing them and based on the completed enrichment activities he was grasping the concepts and improving.
My student also had a lot of trouble with spelling and writing. His writing was clumped together, you could not make out any words and he had a lot of trouble with spelling, and when asked to sound them out he would usually just turn to me and ask again how to spell it. We worked on his sounding out skills, and before he started his journal entries we made goals that had to do with his writing. One of the main goals was for him and his teachers to be able to read his writing. He has made great progress towards this goal and has gotten into the habit of placing spaces between his words. Overall I believe my student made proficient progress in both reading and writing.
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