Sixth Grade Reading Assessment Interest Term Paper

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If anything, Jessica's apparent equating of reading speed as an indication of reading well undermines her comprehension more than technical difficulty.

Jessica understood the main idea, in general but possibility too literally: she retitled the story "What Comes Around Goes Around," and incorrectly attributed a direct cause-and- effect relationship to Leonard's charity and Riley's fate. Instead of characterizing events as an unfortunate but coincidental relationship between a genuine act of charity and an accident,

Jessica apparently assumed that Riley's misfortune might have been related to Leonard's revenge.

Summary Statement:

Jessica reads and comprehends well above her grade level. This is likely a function of her enjoyment of reading. Jessica clearly enjoys reading about subjects of interest but is comparatively easily frustrated by assigned reading outside her intrinsic interests. Jessica possesses good reading mechanics that enable her to deduce pronunciation and contextual meaning of unfamiliar words, but her ability to make full use of those skills is hampered both by her apparent embarrassment and by her overvaluing reading speed in relation to reading with comprehension.

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Jessica would benefit from contributing ideas for the subject matter of academic reading, and from reminders to slow down to make sure she understands everything she reads. Jessica would benefit from mechanical exercises designed to familiarize her with less common letter combinations and/or their phonetic analysis. Substantively, Jessica might also benefit from additional reading assignments on the positive role of government and on ecological conservation efforts, based on her answers to the Interest

Survey. A combination of these behavioral reminders and technical exercises should enable Jessica to maintain her natural interest in reading while allowing her to explore prospective academic interests and reach her full academic….....

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