"The desire to know is far more important than achievement and/or performance measures."Today my student and I went through some routine strategies briefly, before we tackled the "fun" part of our session: assessments. Although I was only able to test him on the QRI word lists (levels primer-third) and do a miscue analysis on a different primer narrative passage from last semester's, the results were nonetheless very meaningful and encouraging. He scored a notch higher on the level two word list, scoring on the instructional level, showing an increase from frustrational to instructional. Although he scored frustrational on level three, I have high hopes that he'll do better next time. I see the desire in him to reach higher levels as we continue to make progress. This is a good sign, for it shows the willingness of my student to improve in literacy aquisition. Just today, he commented on how he wanted to try reading the words from the middle and high school lists. While I commend him for his genuine interest to try reading those horrendously difficult words, I applaud the desire in him even more! It's that burning desire that I hope will never die out!
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Geri,
ReplyDeleteThe "desire" is really what counts, as long as it's there, he will learn! I believe he is motivated by his "teacher" and every little achievement counts. Keep that desire in him alive!
Geri, you are doing a great job with your student. That's great news to hear that he has more interest than ever for reading. Your tutoring is truly helping him.
ReplyDeleteAmen! My student wanted to read all the lists as well! So we did. Yup, keep sparking, hopefully the fire will continue to burn!
ReplyDeleteYes! I think having that desire will help him continue to succeed even when his no longer a UOG student. Best of luck to you!
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