Reading

Reader profile Assessment

During this course I learned how to do a Reader profile. Below you can find an example of my recommendations for a student I tutored during the Wolf pack readers program.

Since T has strong skills in prediction, connection and is able to make inferences, he would benefit most from word work.  Explicit and consistent instruction in forming words, identifying patterns and especially work with words containing multiply vowels will greatly increase T’s ability to decode multisyllabic words.  He will also benefit from instruction in understanding word affixes and how they affect pronunciation and meaning.

Pre-reading vocabulary and word families with patterns similar to what he will read in a given text will also be helpful for T.  As he is very skilled at connecting previously learned patterns, practice with similar words will help him identify new words when he encounters them in a given text.

Read alouds and echo reading should also be an important part of T’s instruction.  This will help increase the time he is able to concentrate on a text and allow him to focus on meaning rather than spending all of his cognitive ability on decoding.  Further, read alouds will give T a more explicit example of pacing, expression and inflection.

Both fluency and word work should be strong emphases of any tutoring session with T