RICA Subtest 3 - Case Study (Kenji)

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Kenji weaknesses (4th grader)

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Kenji weaknesses (4th grader)

1. understanding the main idea
2. inability to summarize
3. Inability to recall details to support main idea
4. literal comprehension w/ informational texts
5. struggled using index (print concepts)

student knew how to look up snow in the index but did not know to look up storms to find hurricanes

Kenji Strengths (4th grader)

1. Fluency is at a 98% accuracy rate
2. enjoys using technology to do research / present

Kenji problem (4th grader)

Has literal comprehension issues and text features issues

literal comprehension stratgies

1. cause and effect graphic organizer
2. sequencing chain graphic organizer
3. instructional conversations (class discussion / chat stations - I do this in my class)
4. think pair share
5. story grammar outline

Instructional Conversations

An instructional format for a discussion among students who have all read the same text; used to develop the comprehension skills of students. This format was developed especially for English Learners.

Story Grammar Outline

An outline of a story based on the literary elements; are a template completed by children with or without help from the teacher to develop literal comprehension

the parts of a text that stand out (diagram, table of contents, index, etc)

text features stratgies

1. walk through of text features
2. have students create a cover and text features for their own writings
3. explicitly teach text features and their uses