December 2, 2015

Today in class I worked with Jacob again on the “SMASH” game. This is where we go back and forth saying the words on the card, and with a  chance card get to steal the opponents cards. We used a difficulty level higher than we have in the past, so the performance was lower. Jacob…

November 18, 2015

Today I worked with Jacob on his short vowel sounds. We worked again with flash cards focusing on short vowels in all parts of the word. We talked about word families/rules such as FLOSS and the -CK family. I then gave him a few words once again.   He got 50% of the words correct…

November 13, 2015

Today I assessed Jacob’s skill set that we had been working on, the short vowel sound. I said aloud to Jacob ten words with short vowel sounds and had him write them out. He only got four of the ten correct. He always chose the correct vowel, showing improvement in this area, but focussing so…

November 4, 2015

This week with Jacob we works on short words with short vowel sounds. We did this through plaint a game called smash in which we took turns pulling a card off the top of a deck and saying the word printed on them. If someone pulled a card that said smash they got to take…

October 28, 2015

This morning I worked again with Jacob using flash cards with short vowel sounds. Since the last time we’ve worked on this (two week ago) he has been practicing them daily on his own. Today, in addition to the consonant+vowel cards we worked on syllables, both nonsense and words. We worked up to 4-6 letter…

October 14, 2015

Today was a little different day in Mrs. Davis’ class as it was a shortened school day. I began they day working with Jacob on his short vowel sounds again, going through the flash cards. We only focused on short i, e and u today. When going through these flash cards, Jacob got 68% of…

Case Study Plan

In observing and assessing Jacob over the past few weeks it doesn’t seem that he has any cognitive set backs other than being dyslexic. When working with him it is clear that he can tell you the sounds of specific letters and even some letter combinations, but has real difficulty in stringing them together into…

October 7, 2015

Today in Mrs. Davis’ class I beta by working with Jacob on short vowel sounds by using flash cards. Each flash card had a consonant paired with a vowel, such as da, te, lo and so on. Jacob did fairly well on this activity, answering about 65% correctly. I noticed two things during this activity…

September 30, 2015

Today in Mrs. Davis’ class I had the opportunity to work with Jacob on the “Words Their Way” spelling test. In this test I observed that Jacob is fairly good at picking up the beginning sound in a word, but not once did he spell a word correctly or even represent each sound. I assume…

September 23, 2015

Today was my third time in Mrs. Davis’ classroom spending time with Jacob. During this class time I got to spend a lot of time with him working on the website Lexia. This website goes through different activities working with vocabulary, sight words, phonics, spelling and so on. He was focusing on double vowel sounds…