Written Report on ERSI

On this ERSI assessment we assessed David. He is a 5 year old in kindergarten at North Wilkesboro Elementary. David does not speak a lot of English. His parents do not speak English at all. David seems to be a very happy child. He is always smiling. At the playground he has the most fun. He loves to play tag with all of the other children. David enjoys singing and dancing to music. He likes to draw pictures of cars and airplanes. David seems to be right handed. When David was writing some of his alphabet he knew the letter, but would just write things like a z turned around backwards. We feel like he knows the letters, and that he will grow out of turning his letter backwards as he gets older. During the ERSI assessment David got very overwhelmed. Towards the end of the assessment when he was reading his sight words he began to just say words. For example he said eyes, nose, feet, arms, and mouth; because when he was in PE earlier in the day they played a game about touching your body parts.            

            David did not get 100 percent on recognizing or writing the alphabet. On the uppercase letter assessment, he recognized 18 out of 26 of the letters. On the lower case assessment, he recognized 20 out of 26 letters. When writing the letters he got 20 out of 26 correct.

He did not seem to be able to recognize or write some of the same letters in upper and lower case. Some of the letters that he did not get correct in lower case, upper case, and when writing all the letters were E, N, and G.

            When David was supposed to read the basal and decodable words on the assessment he had a lot of trouble. He only got one word correct in the basal words and that was the word good. He could not read any of the other words. He just gave up and started saying random words or he would just say the first letter of the word.

            David had trouble on the spelling part of the ERSI also. He only got a total of 6 points. He wrote bacf for back. He seemed to hear the vowel in this word. On the other three points that he got he only got the first letter of the word right.

            During the concept of word on the ERSI David got a total of 3 points. He knew the words rain, dog, and big. He did not point to one whole sentence correctly. David does not have a good concept of word.

            David’s score on the ERSI is low. His grand total is 67 points. We think David still needs to work on his knowledge of the alphabet.  More phonic lessons would help improve his English and phonic awareness. Using alphabet flash cards in upper and lower case letters would help David. Since David likes to sing and dance have him practice singing the alphabet song and pointing to each letter as he sings, to help him recognize the letters.

            From giving this ERSI assessment to David we have learned that he does not know 100 percent of his alphabet in upper and lower case. We think that this assessment was too overwhelming for David. He just got tried and gave up. We do not think that he tried. We have found that David is a smart kid, because he came in to kindergarten not even knowing how to speak any English. David has come a long way to be able to speak some English and even recognize almost the entire English alphabet. We have learned that David can catch on to things very quickly. We have found that this assessment would be difficult for any kindergarter on grade level. We have learned that literacy development in English is much more difficult for non English speaking children. We have learned that all children develop word knowledge, word recognition, phonic awareness, and concept of word at different paces.

Attached below is the worksheet for the ERSI that I done in Block I RE 3030 class at North Wilkesboro Elementary School.