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Lesson 3.3: Alphabet Recognition

Focus: Learn the procedures for administering the Alphabet Recognition assessment.

Prior to the Collaboration Group Meeting

1. Reflection Journal

Write in your reflection journal prior to the Collaboration Group meeting. You are to respond weekly in your journal, reflecting on your learning, observation, questions, and personal connections. Your reflections need to be at least 250 words. You may choose how to format your journal, though you may want to consider the following as you write:

    • What are some new understandings you made this week as a result of the work for this lesson and your work with your students?
    • How has this new understanding influenced your current practice?

Bring your reflection journal to the weekly Collaboration Group meeting, and prepare to share your entries.

2. Classroom Application

    • Carefully read the Alphabet Recognition Assessment Tool No. 1, in Taking a Reading (pp. 12-15). You may administer this assessment to students in kindergarten, if applicable to your school, a 1st or 2nd grader, or a struggling student in 3rd grade.
    • Administer the Alphabet Recognition assessment to your three target students.
    • Record your observations on the Alphabet Recognition teacher recording form (p. 15); make copies so that you have one form for each student.
    • Summarize the students’ recognition information. Note the strengths and needs of each student. Bring the assessments and your summary to the Collaboration Group, and be prepared to discuss next steps for these students.

During the Collaboration Group Meeting

  1. Share your reflection journal entries.
  2. Discuss the assessment and the information it yields. Why is it important for students to be able to know letters automatically?
  3. Decide what you will do to help students learn letters fluently and automatically. Brainstorm a list of some activities that will foster letter-sound recognition.
  4. Determine the facilitator, recorder, timekeeper, date, time, and location of the next Collaboration Group meeting.

After the Collaboration Group Meeting

  1. Email your Alphabet Recognition Assessment Summary to the instructor. Send your assignment(s) to the instructor as an attachment to an email message. Be sure to include your name, date, location, and title on the document. Also, include your name and lesson title in the file name, for example, moses_alphabet_assessment.
  2. The recorder emails the notes to the instructor.
  3. The timekeeper emails the attendance to the instructor.