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John's Reading and Writing Progress Report

Alicia O'Neill wrote a letter to John's family sharing her observations from working with John twice a week through a reading program. She outlined John's strengths in decoding words, understanding details, and identifying similes/metaphors. However, John struggled with word definitions, sequencing events in stories, and using apostrophes in contractions. To improve, the letter recommends John read silently at home and retell stories, write short stories about topics, and add colorful apostrophes to contractions.

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John's Reading and Writing Progress Report

Alicia O'Neill wrote a letter to John's family sharing her observations from working with John twice a week through a reading program. She outlined John's strengths in decoding words, understanding details, and identifying similes/metaphors. However, John struggled with word definitions, sequencing events in stories, and using apostrophes in contractions. To improve, the letter recommends John read silently at home and retell stories, write short stories about topics, and add colorful apostrophes to contractions.

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November 26, 2019

To the Family of John,

Hello, I am Alicia O’Neill from the University of Mount Union. I am currently a senior
studying Early Childhood Education. I have been working with John twice a week during
Aviator time at Rockhill through the RAC program. We have been doing reading and
writing activities together, and I have learned so much about his strengths and areas for
improvement in reading and writing. I am writing this letter to share them with you!

John has many strengths within his reading and writing skills. He excels at decoding
(sounding out) words in stories when he reads. John also does very well when he is
asked questions about details from a story he just read to someone. The way he
understands stories the best is by reading them out loud, or having them read to him.
He is also very good at being able to tell me which sentence contains a simile or a
metaphor. He is even able to underline what two things are being compared. John is
very good at following directions and responding to activities with a positive attitude.
These are just a few of John’s strengths that he has displayed to me throughout our
time working together.

In addition to his strengths, John has a few areas in his reading and writing which he
can improve upon. One area for improvement for John is being able to give a definition
for words he is working on in school. A few of these words are ​locate, determine, draw,
and ​suggest​. He struggled to match definitions to words during a memory game, even
sometimes trying to match two terms or two definitions together. Another area for
improvement for John is knowing the order of events within a story. He was given
different cards with sentences on them, asked to read them silently, and then asked to
place them into the correct order. This was hard for him, which also led to him having
some difficulty writing a story with organization. Lastly, John is able to tell me what two
words go together to make a contraction, but he struggles to be able to place the
apostrophe in the correct place. These areas for improvement are nothing that cannot
be worked on and improved.

I’d like to share with you some activities that John can do at home to help develop his
skills in his areas for improvement I mentioned in the above paragraph. I would
encourage John to read silently for about 10 minutes a night at home. Once he finishes
reading the story, an adult should ask a couple of questions such as ​Who? What?
When? Where? Why?​. For his ability to put events in a story into the correct order, John
can read a story then tell what he read to someone else. They would be listening to see
if he could retell the story in the correct order. To work on his organization while writing
a story, he could be given a topic, such as Spiderman, and asked to write a 3-4
sentence story about it. Once it is written, John can read the story out loud and state if
the order of events makes sense. Another activity that could be done would be to have
him take his favorite color marker/pencil and add colorful apostrophes to make
contractions.

Thank you so much for the opportunity to work with John. I have learned a lot about
working with students in a school setting from meeting with John. If you have any
questions please contact me at ​oneilap2020@mountunion.edu​.

Sincerely,

Alicia O’Neill

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