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Phonics Assessment Insights

The student struggled most with nonsense words, multisyllabic words, and spelling sight words. For the phonics portion, she knew her consonants, digraphs, and basic vowels well but struggled with trigraphs and vowel combinations. She was more comfortable reading multisyllabic words in context versus in isolation or as nonsense words. The student had difficulty blending letters into words for the multisyllabic words on the third word list.

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Phonics Assessment Insights

The student struggled most with nonsense words, multisyllabic words, and spelling sight words. For the phonics portion, she knew her consonants, digraphs, and basic vowels well but struggled with trigraphs and vowel combinations. She was more comfortable reading multisyllabic words in context versus in isolation or as nonsense words. The student had difficulty blending letters into words for the multisyllabic words on the third word list.

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Phonics

The phonics portion of the WADE assessment was full of useful information for me.

Although she was not able to identify all 24 consonants, I do feel like she is proficient in that

area. As I look back, I see that I should have covered the paper other than the letters she was to

look at. She was thrown off at the c and g because it tells the person administering the test to

look for the soft c and soft g sounds. Those two soft sounds were the ones she gave instead of

their main sound. After I covered the middle of the paper, she did much better. She also knew

her digraphs well but struggled with her trigraphs. She did know all her basic vowel sounds but

knew very few vowel combinations. That is where I discontinued administering the test.

Nonsense Words

Going over nonsense words with the student did not give me too much information.

Maybe if we had done more words, I would have been able to pull out more important insights. I

did not see a clear pattern in her mistakes. The first word she read incorrectly was a vowel

mistake, the second she left out a consonant. After that’s it seemed like she was not comfortable

reading multisyllabic words. I don’t think this is across the board though. When we read the

Junie B. Jones book for her lessons, she was very comfortable sounding out words with more

than one syllable. It seems to me that she may not be able to read multisyllabic words that are

unfamiliar or nonsense, like the words on this list.

Word Lists

The word list part was very interesting. She definitely has more difficulty reading words

in isolation than in context. I still think she did well overall. The first two list she had very little

trouble and just made minor mistakes. When she got to the third list, with multisyllabic words,
she was sounding the letters out, but she was not blending them back together. I feel confident

that if she was reading these same words in context, she would be able to figure them out. Even

though we should have discontinued and list 3, she wanted to do list 4 so I let her. The first two

words on the list were basic long vowel words but she read them with short vowel sounds. She

was able to read four of the more complex words on that list. I found this interesting, but it did

not really help me identify any additional ways to help her.

Spelling

I knew that the spelling list would be a struggle for the student. I have helped in the

writing center of the classroom before this point. This has given me some insight into her

spelling challenges. Although I was not able to identify pattens I knew that her spelling level was

not very high. Having administered this list I now see that the spelling of sight words is an issue

and that she would probably be more comfortable spelling words that she can sound out.

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