Classroom Observation: Danica's Reading Comprehension

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Reading: According to the teacher’s data, work samples and classroom observations, Danica has made program towards her reading goal. She is able to decode through unknown words, recall details and to answer questions from short passages; however she struggles with comprehension question for lengthy reading selections. Progress monitoring shows that she is averaging in the 30-40% proficiency for reading comprehension. Danica has shown improvements towards her reading fluency, according to the Mclass DiBels assessment, 51wpm from 21 wpm at the (BOY) beginning of the year. Informal observation made by the teacher notes that Danica demonstrates weakness in comprehension and fluency. The difficulty in the area of comprehension impacts the general education setting in the …show more content…

She understands what she has read when she uses her classroom reading strategies Danica continues to struggle with reading fluency, finding specific details, identifying the main idea, understanding the meaning of a text, making inferences, predicting what may happen next and drawing conclusions for the regular education curriculum These difficulties in language arts/reading has negatively impact Danica ’s ability to perform grade level text independently within the regular education …show more content…

BM objectives: Given a grade level selection, with clear and visual support, Danica will identify the main idea, sequence of events supported by 3 details, 4 out of 5 trials.
Danica will identify the main idea and 3 or more relevant details from a story read aloud on, 4 out of 5 trials.
When given a grade-level text, Danica will verbally discuss the details and examples in the text for, 4 out of 5 trials.
After reading a grade level text, Danica will answer “WH” (Who, what when, where, why and how) questions, 4 out of 5

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