Mini lesson

I did a running record assessment on a 1^st grader. She had an error rate of 1:18, and her accuracy rate was 94%, her self-correction rate was 1:4.

Overall, the student was a fluent reader, she self-corrected herself a few times in the story, and made some errors. I realized that the student was having difficulty with words comprising of one or more syllables like the word marshmallows. So I will create a mini lesson to help her pronounce the syllables. At the end of the lesson, she will be able to identify the number of syllables in a word, count the beats in a word. I will tell the child that syllables can help her when she reads and writes. This will make that spelling long words and reading, much easier for her. I will read words from a word list and she will clap, or tap on her desk by each syllable. She will then understand the difference between a short and long words.  Then to make sure that she understands it well, I will write the following words on the board, butter, amazing, excited, frog, marshmallow, incredible. I will have her get up and going through the words she will stomp with her feet to represent the number of syllables in each word.