RICA Subtest 3 - Case Study (Brian)

Sam strength (1st grader)
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Sam strength (1st grader)
1. literal comprehension
2. likes to read
3. enjoys looking through books
Sam weaknesses (1st grader)
1. consonant blends
2. comprehension inferential
3. fluency
4. digraphs ch and sh
5. orthographic (spelling)
Sam needs (1st grader)
1. digraph
2. orthographic
3. comprehension (inferential)
4. fluency
consonant blends/clusters
2 (blends) or 3 (clusters) consonants that together make two or three distinct sounds - the "br" in brunch (FF, LL, SS)
Digraph
combination of 2 letters possessing a single sound (graph= ph/ swing=ng/chance=ch/head=ea)
digraph stratgies
Think SPIRE

1. word sort (think SPIRE where kids circle the word with the sound)
2. Word building tiles (SPIRE; magnetic book and building words)
3. finding words that rhyme with target words
3. replacing / sub initial, medial, and ending sounds and creating other words
orthographic stratgies
1. making word activity (word tiles in SPIRE)
2. students write out word using different colors for vowel patterns, root words, and affixes
3. segment the sounds to spell (think SPIRE arm tap)
4. air write words
inferential comprehension stratgies
1. activity where students make an observation / possible inference - whole class activity / small group
2. use anchor chart to organize student predictions / drawing conclusion
3. do a picture walk before reading / make predictions
4. have students do fill in blank activity where they fill in the conclusions, predictions, into sentence frames
5. draw conclusion graphic organizer (think SPIRE)
Fluency Strategies
fluency stratgies
1. Use texts at independent level
2. Use repeated reading
3. Review targeted phonics instruction (SPIRE)
4. review targeted sight word instruction
5. Choral reading
6. Whisper reading
7. echo reading