Initial test results: (CAAT - Canadian Adult Achievement Test and Math Skills Inventory)

• Vocabulary 10.3, reading comprehension 6.5 and spelling 7.7.
• Math results indicate that she can add, subtract and multiply single-digit numbers but has difficulty with double-digits and division. As a result, she struggled with her percentages and fractions. Although her adding and subtracting were strong, when they were put into a word problem format she was unable to solve them.

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 endings off.
• 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.