I am a K-1 Title I reading teacher. I use The Stieglitz Assessment of Phonemic Awareness (part of the Stieglitz Reading Inventory) for pinpointing phonological/phonemic issues. It helps me find where in the instructional continuum individual students need instruction. My most successful intervention is with the Marilyn Adams, Phonemic Awareness in Young Children. For kids with persistent challenges with PA, I then turn to the Phonological Awareness Test from Linguisystems. It can be regiven every 3 months to show RTI. All of this may not sound really warm and fuzzy but, in my experience, there are some kids that may need more intense instruction in PA than daily exposure in a whole group setting. In the community I work in, sometimes as many as 1/4 to 1/3 of the kindergarteners in intervention have needed and have benefitted from this approach. These students have made awesome gains. Some people, inspite of rich language exposure, are really unable to "hold" a string of phonemes, in their heads while they decode a word. This intervention has always worked for my students, so far.
Cathy -----Original Message----- From: kelley dean <[email protected]> To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Jan 13, 2010 10:53 am Subject: [MOSAIC] Kdgn diagnostic assessment First, thanks for all the comments and teaching strategies. My problem is his: as a reading specialist, I am aware of many diagnostic assessments for rades 3+ (ekwall shanker, flint cooter, etc) that are helpful for inding patterns in reading problems and sheding light on a student's real ssue so I can fine tune my teaching to meet his needs. his problem of rhyming and phonological issue in kdgn, is unlike anything 've seen before in my 25 years. Obviously, I've stressed rhyming games and iterature, open response, etc. I just want an assessment that that offers nformation similar to the above assessments for upper grades. Yes, I am ware of Marie Clay (big fan, in fact) DRA, etc. I just want to offer some xplicit instruction in a sequencial fashion, based on a diagnostic ssessment. please help - elley Dean ______________________________________________ osaic mailing list [email protected] o unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to ttp://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
