- When Samantha was asked how she felt about the CAAT and the
math inventory skills tests, what areas she struggled with and what
areas she found okay, she indicated that she wasn't surprised about
the results. Samantha found the reading passages very difficult and
ran out of time to complete the reading section. She has always
found math to be difficult, especially word problems. Samantha was
always able to rely on her memory to do multiplication, adding and
subtracting. She was pleasantly surprised about her vocabulary.
Samantha admitted that when she sees a word in isolation, instead of
seeing it combined in a sentence, she is able to read it better.
Questions for practitioners to consider:
What areas require further assessment and what tools would you use? At this
point, do you see any potential learning disabilities? If yes, provide a
rationale.
Further assessment
Need to assess her reading further to understand her difficulties
- Her reading was slow and she struggled with decoding the words,
which interfered with her comprehension.
- She often missed words and left off endings.
- Samantha often lost her place when reading the passage.
- She would read some of the syllables backwards (saw for was).
- Her comprehension was excellent when the passage was read to
her orally along with the questions, as compared to her oral and
silent reading of the passage.
- When given sight words she was able to read them, but when
nonsense words were mixed in she struggled with breaking the
units down in the word to sound it out. She most likely scored
higher on her vocabulary due to her good memory skills and
ongoing exposure to reading materials.
- Samantha struggled with cloze paragraphs.
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