Concepts of Print Reflective Narrative INTASC and NAEYC Standard: Principle #1: Making content meaningful

The teacher understands the central concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures of the discipline(s) he or she teachers and creates learning experiences that make these aspects of subject matter meaningful to students.

NAEYC Standards 1.Promoting Child Development and Learning

Identify artifact: The Concepts of Print is an assessment that gauges the knowledge of emergent literacy and identifies areas of strengths and weaknesses. Identify process: The first step in the COP process was to identify the student who would most benefit from the COP assessment. The next step was to implement the assessment. After the assessment was completed the test was scored. The test was reviewed line by line to determine what instruction was needed. Then a recommended instruction was suggested. Rationale: The relationship between the selected NAEYC and INTASC standard and the artifact is the assessment tools focus is promoting child development and learning. The assessment measures knowledge and skills then identifies the areas that need to be developed. Reflection: The assessment helped me to segment the concepts of print. There are many pieces to understanding print and this assessment was helpful to isolate each skill to see what skills the student is proficient and what needs more reinforcement. This assessment would be beneficial in the beginning of the year to assess all students for grouping differentiated work. I liked the engaging methods the student was tested. The test kept the students attention. Also, if this test wasnt performed, most likely I would have wasted valuable class time teaching this student print skills that she already mastered. Now this student will get the appropriate instruction that is required to progress her literacy and concepts of print. I disagree how Inverted Print was assessed. The student was requested to point to the beginning of the sentence and track the print until the end of the sentence. The student was supposed to go against directionality and read form right to left. I feel that tracking the opposite direction should never be done at such a young emergent age. Young children dont have strong enough foundation to change one of the rules about the concepts of print. Relationship to teaching/learning: The student was impacted by this assessment by getting an accurate gauge to what stage the student has already mastered. Also, the test influenced the students new learning. Another benefit of the assessment is the students exposure to the print concepts and review of past knowledge. In addition, the student was curious about certain aspects of the test and I help her understand some of the principles of text.

Denyse Fiero October 8, 2011 ECED 360

Concepts of Print
The Concepts of Print is an assessment given to primarily emergent readers to find out a students strengths and weaknesses in print. In this assessment, a student was selected to determine her level of concepts of print. The student appears to be very knowledgeable about print in the classroom. The teacher requested to assess this child to find out her instructional needs. During the Concepts of Print assessment the student proved to be knowledgeable. She understood the directionality principle like identifying parts of the book and how to read from left to right. The student also understood the Space Principle. She was able to track the print while I orally read the page. The student was confused when challenged to the inverted print page. She understood that the text should move from left to right. However she was stumped why the text was upside-down from the text. The girl also noted that the period was at the beginning of the sentence. She knew something was incorrect but didnt know to turn the book around. The student laughed when I read from the bottom line up. She commented that I was tricking her. Next part of the assessment checked letter order within certain words that were out of sequence. The student didnt notice the mixed up words as I tracked the words. The next portion of the Concepts of Print assessment was on capital and lowercase letters. The next portion of the investigation was on capital and lowercase letters. The student could positively indentify uppercase and lowercase letters. She also knew that uppercase was used for beginning a sentence and a person in this instance. The student didnt know the name or the function of a comma. She was able to recognize a quotation mark and the function. Another skill explored was the understanding of anagrams. The student was successful in identifying the word no but not

was. This was a skill that needed more reinforcement. Another proficient element of the assessment was the letter and word concept. She was able to move the index card to show each letter and word.

The student scored 19/24 on the Concepts of Print assessment. There are some recommended areas that the student will need instructional assistance in according to the findings of the assessment. One area of need is to identify where to begin with inverted print. More modeling would be beneficial to help understand print and how to track print. Another area of instruction is to indentify out of order letters in words. More reinforcement of memorization and familiarity to sight words will be beneficial to the recognition of re-ordering letters. An additional area that could be strengthened further is in sentence mechanics. The student has a good foundation in punctuation and could now learn about when to use a comma. The last area that the student could benefit to strengthen her COP knowledge is the understanding of anagrams. Instruction that could help with this skill could be to match anagrams to each other. That will help the student to understand each anagram and not get them mixed up. The COP assessment was a through way to assess a students knowledge of their concepts of print. It clearly shows the students strengths and weaknesses. The test also shows where future instruction is needed. Print is important because it is one of the most universal ways to communicate. The test also helps segment all the necessary skills that are needed to help with proficiency of literacy.