REA 628 Literacy Assessment

Student Information:KinleeAge 6KindergardenerCaucasianFemaleGood StudentAbove Average ReaderLikes ReadingVolunteers to Read Aloud in Class

Assessment Book:Title: Look Who Can CookWritten By: Linda B. RossIllustrated By: Patrick Girouard

Published By: Saxon Publishers

Background & Predictions:Have you read this story?

NoRead the Title and look at the pictures. What

do you think the story will be about? Cooking & Helping

What do you know about cooking? I help my Mommy cook.

What do you do? Put the stuff in, stir it, and some things you

don’t have to put in that long.

Assessment Details:Total of 16 sentences12 sentences correct4 sentences incorrect75% correctStudent was Reading at Frustration

LevelNote: This book is 3 levels ahead of

where the class is at currently.

Assessment: Running Record

Relies heavily on sounding out (11 words)Very successful at sounding outWas unable to successfully sound out “shelf”. Said, “shef”. I asked, “Did that make sense?”She looked for picture clues. There were none.We discussed the sentence, “Dad gets that

big book off the ________.”Correctly identified “shelf”.

Assessment Continued…Made 5 substitutionsRead, “What will the four of us cook?” as “What

will we find for us cook?”She did not stop but kept reading.When I asked her to reread, she did so,

successfully.She read, “We get smocks off the hooks.” as

“We get some cooks off the hooks.”She reread, but was unable to decode “smocks”.We discussed what smocks were

and she reread the sentence successfully.

Assessment Continued…

Assessment Continued…Kinlee switches back and forth between tracking

print with her eyes and pointing with her fingerShe reads more for comprehension than for

accuracyShe never showed signs of frustrationVery willing to tryEager to succeed

Had fun during the reading and laughed at pictures

Story Retell/ Comprehension: Who were the characters?

Dad and the kids What was the story mostly about?

Cooking Where did the story take place?

At home. What did they cook?

Pizza How did they make it?

They mix it up, throw it in the air, the kids helped and then they cook it.

What happened at the end of the story? They ate the pizza.

What were those things called that the kids put on? Used the book as a reference … smocks

Conclusions/ Recommendations:Though the text was considered at her frustration

level, her comprehension did not suffer.She does not always recognize when she has

made an error, though, she does self monitor to an extent.

Recommendations:Vocabulary Introductions and ReviewsSelf-Check for Comprehension After Each

Sentence (Did what I read make sense?)Skip-It and Reread (Use context clues to figure

out the word.)

Vocabulary Box Activity:Write vocabulary words on a card and place

them in a box. You or the students write a definition on the

back of each.Use the box at any time to review by giving the

definition and asking for the word or visa- versa.Once there are several cards in the box

you can have students use them forvarious sorting or grouping activities.

Thank You!