Tuesday, 14 February 2012

Class 7 - Tuesday, February 14th 2012

For today's class, we did a jigsaw activity on 5 different case studies:

Case 1
Teddy (Grade 3)
Problem:  spelling accurately
Intervention:  direct instruction, tested on taught/untaught words.
Result:  Increased weekly scores to 65% after 13 weeks.

Case 2
Jody
Problem:  was given reading probes for abc's and phonics, level quite low
Intervention:  was given a Tier 2 intervention with daily testing.
Result:  Successful

Case 3
Megan (Grade 5)
Problem:  spelling problems
Intervention:  tried copy-cover-say-spell method and phonetics.
Result:  Teacher found that phonetics  was the more successful method.

Case 4
Lilly (Grade 4)
Problem:  reading disability
Intervention:  Tier 1 - observation and testing, Tier 2 - 2 methods of reading help tried but failed.  Tier 3 - recommended for special education reading class.
Result:  unknown

Case 5
Gavin (Grade 7)
Problem:  reading problem
Intervention:  testing found he was a slow reader and comprehender but understood meanings.
Result:  tests demonstrated that Gavin did not require special education.

After the case studies, we worked in our groups to prepare for our presentations on Thursday and Friday.

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