Continuing Data

Here is one of the word sort recording forms.  It seems as though all of my students are getting good practice with this to help them recognize those vowel patterns in words.  I think not only will their reading improve but also their spelling.  Also, there are some students who are getting finished with their sort really fast (which is good) but it makes me think that I should give them a harder sort or some other variation of the activity.  I will have to reference my word sort book for more ideas.  Becca exhibited behavior characteristic of her normal actions.  She would have rather read her story book than sort these words.  I actually took that as a good thing because that shows me that she is becoming more confident and independent in her reading and that she enjoys it.  Which, really, isn't that why we are doing these word sorts?  Nate, on the other hand, really struggled with these words.  He just can't see the patterns.  He often jumbles the letters around and I have to cue him to cover all but a few letters at a time so as not to distract his eye.  When he does that, he can sound them out fine.  I know he can't do that when he is reading a book, so we focus on repeated reading and he does really well with that.  He is coming to be a successful reader.  It is just harder for him than the rest of the kids.
Word Sort recording form