Nealy’s most frequent miscued was changing the endings of her words. She turns the singular word into plural form; nevertheless, it wouldn’t change the meaning or part of speech. The goal of monitoring inflectional endings would help Nealy become more aware of the effects of changing words into plural forms. As a result, making Nealy become a more accurate reader.
Goal #2: Develop Strategies to Decode Unknown Words
Nealy is confident in her ability to read sight words; however, when she comes to an unfamiliar words, her confident fades away. This was mainly demonstrated when she was reading the word list. She first tried sounding the beginning of the word, but then she stopped and gave up. By developing more …show more content…
Gradual release model is a four step process: #1 teacher focus instruction (think-aloud), #2 guided instruction (teacher and student work together), #3 group learning (student works with other student), #4 individual learning (student works by himself/herself).
Monitoring Inflectional Endings
1. Teacher needs to create mini-lessons on inflectional endings that includes lots of practicing. The lessons can include: morphemic units and word sorting. The main focus would be suffixes.
2. The second strategy is repeated reading.
Develop Strategies to Decode Unknown Words
1. One recommendation to help with decoding unknown words is to use code-based strategies to identify unfamiliar words. This would include: thinking about the sounds in the word, looking for parts she knows, trying different pronunciations, and breaking the word into smaller parts.
2. The second strategy is to use meaning bases to identify unfamiliar words. This would include: checking the pictures, thinking of words that might make sense, reading past the puzzling word, and going back to the beginning and starting