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Literacy

Context:  This unit was created for RE 3030, Foundations of Literacy, Spring 2007.  It was created under the advisement of Dr. Janet Bloodgood.

This unit contains all of the results from the ERSI test.  My partner, Amanda, and I administered the ERSI to a Kindergartner from Mrs. Quesenberry's class.  I asked him the questions while Amanda wrote down his score for each section.

Impact:  This unit tested what level a student from Mrs. Quesenberry's Kindergarten class was on in the ERSI scale.  It scores how well the student reads, writes words and letters, and spelling.  By going over his scores we are able to see what he needs work on, what he does well, and how he works through what he doesn't know.

Alignment: This unit met the following North Carolina Standards for Elementary School Teachers:

Standard 1: Elementary teachers have a broad knowledge and understanding of the major concepts in English Language Arts and Literacy.

·        Indicator 1: Teachers know the developmental stages of language acquisition.

  • Indicator 4: Teachers understand the elementary school child’s social, cultural, linguistic, cognitive, and affective backgrounds as they relate to the ability to develop effective communication processes (listening, speaking, reading, and writing).
  • Indicator 8: Teachers know and understand written and oral composition processes. They understand:
    • Detail : The written language as a symbolic system.
    • Detail : The phonemic, morphemic, semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic systems of language and their relation to the reading and writing process.

Standard 7: Elementary teachers use developmentally appropriate strategies to design and deliver instruction in all areas of the elementary curriculum.

  • Indicator : Indicator 3: Teachers promote new learning by using students’ prior knowledge, misconceptions, and interests when designing lessons.
  • Indicator : Indicator 6: Teachers modify instruction and assessments to meet the needs of individual students.
  • Indicator : Indicator 7: Teachers develop and use a variety of formal and alternative assessment strategies as an integral part of instruction and learning appropriate for assessing individual, peer, team, and collaborative skills.

Standard 8: Teachers design instructional programs and strategies that build on students’ experiences and existing language skills to help students become competent, effective users of language.

  • Indicator 1: Teachers teach children to read with a balanced instructional program that includes an emphasis on the use of letter/sound relationships (phonics), context (semantic and syntactic), and text that has meaning for students.
  • Indicator 6: Teachers model Standard English.
File Attachments:
  1. ERSI Reflection ERSI Reflection
  2. ERSI Results ERSI Results
    Scanned Sheets of ERSI and Spelling Papers.
  3. ERSI Sheet ERSI Sheet
    Contains the results of the ERSI test.
  4. QIWK Sheet QIWK Sheet
    Contains the results of the Qualitative Inventory of Word Knowledge
Author: Molly Hartfelder
Last modified: 4/28/2008 11:36 AM (EST)