Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Fall, 2015
Laura Boak
Introduction of Tutee
Justice is a first grade boy. He is Caucasian and speaks the Appalachian dialect. His
parents are no longer together so he lives with his older brother, younger sister,
mom, and grandparents. Justice loves Sponge Bob and watching football with his
grandfather. He is very talkative and has a little trouble sitting still in his chair but
he is generally very engaged in tutoring.
Re-assessment/formative
Concepts of Print: Justice mastered this portion of the assessment in his preassessment.
Phonemic awareness: Justice mastered this portion of the assessment in his preassessment.
Letter Skills: Justice was able to identify nine sounds he was unable to identify
previously. Seven of these sounds were consonants or consonant vowel
combinations. The other two sounds were vowel digraphs. Justice was able to write
five new sounds. The only letter he was still not able to write the letter for was e.
He was able to identify three new letter names, u, l, and v. The only letter he
still needs to learn the name of is g.
Sight Words: Justice learned fourteen new sight words. Mastery for each set is 100%
and Justice has yet to achieve this for any set.
Word Skills: Justice learned ten new words. He was able to master the first two sets
of words.
and starting over. I realized how important it is to explicitly teach reading strategies
like tracking and how much of a difference that skill makes in the reading process.