Book Buddies Assessment Portfolio

For this project, I was paired with a student in a local elementary school who had been identified as a struggling reader. He was a kindergartener and was lacking fundamental reading skills in order for him to move on to first grade. Over the course of my time with this student, I administered several reading assessments to gauge his level of reading ability and subsequently develop lesson plans to meet his needs. 

I visited my student once a week for several weeks. The first four weeks were spent getting to know the student as a reader and understanding the strategies he used to understand text. I administered four reading assessments: 

• A reading interest survey and inventory 
• A book handling and print concepts assessment 
• A phonological awareness assessment 
• An oral reading and text reconstruction analysis 

Based on the results of the assessments, I developed several lesson plan recommendations from which I could choose. Each of the lessons addressed the specific needs of my student based on the assessment results. Once I had developed several lessons, I chose five of the best lesson plans to carry out with my student. 

• Lesson 1: Comprehension of Characters and Key Details  
• Lesson 2: Asking Questions Before, During, and After Reading  
• Lesson 3: Predicting  
• Lesson 4: Reading with Emphasis - Fluency 
• Lesson 5: Rhyming Words  

To view this project in its entirety, including all assessment reflections, lesson plan recommendations, and full lesson plans, please click here!