Module 1: Watch & Learn: Assessing Reading Skills

This short video clip shows a teacher assessing a 10 year old student on her reading skills.  I think this video does a great job highlighting the most important part of reading instruction is assessing the students frequently to drive our  instruction. I believe that assessing the students can help us compile the data to see what the student is struggling with. Therefore, we can teach the reading strategy that will help the students tackle the  specific skill the student is struggling with. In the video, the teacher explains that the student is struggling with decoding the text, which hinder her comprehension skill. The teacher is unable to retell the story because she lacks fluency while reading the text. I think that the word list should be taught in context to help the students gain meaning to the words so that he/ she will be able to retain the word and its meaning. Recognizing and understanding the word meaning would help with gaining meaning of the text.