Emergent Literacy Questions

12/4/2015

Michigan folks, please post any questions you have in preparation for Follow-Up Meeting #1, 2, and 3 below as comments to this post. I'll do my best to respond to them when we get together online and also in future blog posts. Happy to have folks who aren't from Michigan join the blog conversation as well:)

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Brad Haeflinger

4/25/2016 05:55:38 am

I administered the ERSI to one of my students this past week. The classroom is designated a MOCI classroom. We currently have five students ranging in age from 9-11. The student that took the ERSI is my most verbal, and cognitively highest functioning. In order to administer the assessment to my other students it would require adapting the material immensely.

The results: He scored a 25.46 (grand total); 9.61 (Alphabet); 8.75 (COW); 3.10 (PA); 4.00 (WR). For the alphabet section, I discarded the 'production' section as this particular student is at the scribble phase of writing and doesn't produce letter forms yet. He had no problem finding the letters on his IPAD when asked. In addition, for the PA section, he used his IPAD (Proloquo2go app) to write the words. This is a fairly new concept for him, so the results were not unexpected.

The assessment shows he 'gets' the alphabet and sounds the letters make. When asked what a letter was, he often followed the name with the sound. His biggest need at this time is in the decoding of CVC words. Is there a base starting point that you use when instructing CVC words? We've worked on word families in the past, and I intend to focus on those the remainder of this school year.

Question for David: Is the ERSI your go-to for literacy assessment? Have you used any others in the past that you found beneficial? I've looking at the Willans Hill website lately to see how they created their literacy program and they use the Basic Reading Inventory by Jerry Johns. I purchased the 10 ed., but have not used it yet. Most (all) of my assessments up to this point have been teacher-made, but I fear the consistency lacks. More (structured) options would be beneficial.

Thanks,

Dave Koppenhaver link

4/26/2016 12:25:17 pm

Brad, I replied to this on the other thread, since I saw it there first.

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