Observation Evidence Report #1

FIELD OBSERVATION EVIDENCE REPORT #1

Bree Land

RICA Domain: Word Analysis
RICA Competency: Phonemic Awareness
Grade Level: First Grade

INSTRUCTION

                I observed room 406, Miss. B's first grade learning phonemic awareness. Miss. B. was introducing rhyming words to the students, stressing words with the same ending sound. She played a Brain Pop Jr. interactive video on the smart board. The video was interactive with songs and guessing games. It explained how words rhyme when they have the same ending sounding. It also pointed out how not all rhyming words are spelt the same.

                As a class they then discussed different words and letters that make rhymes.  They explained where rhyming words are used, ie. songs, poems and literature. Miss. B gave them a word such as "cat" and had them find as many rhyming words. To help them out she taught them to look at each letter of the alphabet to see if the ending sound works with each letter. Rime or phonogram at is a word family, she explained and models with a word family activity.

                Back at their seats the students were given an activity to do, relating to sounding out words and finding word families that rhyme. For the EL students she had me play a rhyming game with them. Helping them see visual cards with pictures on them. We went over each picture learning the word, then by sounding out each sound they had to match the pictures that rhyme and repeat it back. This game was successful capturing their information while others worked on the activity. While learning the words that rhyme together they were also going over each letters sound, and improving on sounding out. The visuals were helpful, giving them the confidence to learn it because they were familiar with the image.

INSTRUCTIONL SETTING

            I observed around room 406 there was many letter images along with a picture representing it. Once the rhyming activity was done the class hung up each one showing the different rhyming words. She has the rhyming word games incorporated in centers for the week, to review for everyone.