Thursday, April 1, 2010
Assessing my case study
In my assessment project, I focused on handwriting and word spacing in writing sentences. I found that my case study child struggles to space words when he is writing sentences. I believe this may be partially due to the fact that he holds his pencil incorrectly when he writes. I worked with him a little bit to help him correct this problem, but I mainly focused on assessing his sentence structure when he writes. Ms. Martin, his teacher, has told me that it is so important that he develops his handwriting skills further before he reaches second grade. I have personally noticed improvement in his writing from the work I have seen him do over the semester. I think with more individual instruction with this child may be beneficial for him.
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Hi Liza. That sounds like an interesting subject area to assess. I would have never thought to do that but it's a great idea! Many kids in the kindergarten class where I am placed, I have noticed hold their pencil incorrectly. It is strange because writing becomes one of those things you don't even think about and you just do-muscle memory?-but I bet it is hard to to learn of to control your hand movement when learning to write. I wish I could remember learning to write and what it was like.
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