Cassandra Teacher Ms. Perez

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Cassandra’s Progress:
From the video, Cassandra is a first grader who attends a school in Boston. It was learned that the Cassandra teacher Ms. Perez works with her students and Cassandra to ensure that they are constantly reading. Reading is something that is important because it is something that students will use for the rest of their lives. It was learned from the video that Cassandra is a first-grade student who is academically reading wise exactly were a first grader reading should be at. The teacher Ms. Perez gave Cassandra an assessment in the beginning of the year to see if she knew any of the words that first graders should know and at the end of the assessment. It was drawn that she knew 20 out of the 24 words. Ms. Perez also gave her harder words, …show more content…

The teacher implemented that this was ok. In the beginning of the year, Cassandra was able to use picture clues when she was having a difficult time reading a story. Ms. Perez helped Cassandra with her reading in different ways. Cassandra was able to become a fluent reading because the teacher used guided reading, partner reading and independent reading with Cassandra. Cassandra was able to make progress because she was influenced by practicing with books she knew and with books that she was not so familiar with. She also did activities that reinforced her reading like for example she was learning how to blend words. The way Ms. Perez worked with Cassandra really helped out Cassandra in the end of May because Cassandra was able to use for strategies when she read. For example, Cassandra was able to sound out words, self-correct herself when reading and use picture clues to sound out words. Also at the end of the school year, Cassandra was able to connect her reading with writing out

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