Overview of Teacher Work Sample

This pre-assessment and the five lessons that follow are designed for fourth grade small

group reading students at Camden Rockport Elementary School. The majority of my students

goals focus on reading with fluency and accuracy to support comprehension and to apply grade

level phonics and word analysis skills to decode words. Through these lessons students will work

on improving reading with fluency and accuracy at a few different times. Students will also put

their word analysis and phonics skills to the test to complete their independent work in decoding

words. These lessons focus on reading a chapter book with fluency and accuracy and then using

that book to decode words they struggled with, while breaking the words into the different types

of syllables. The students will also work on decoding several other multisyllabic words using

decoding strategies to determine the word and gain a better understanding of word pronunciation

and meaning. Each day students will focus on reviewing a spelling rule and practicing this

spelling rule using bray tiles to first sound out the word and then spell the word. For the last part

of the lesson the students focus on determining the meaning of words based on the prefix and

suffix the word has. Theses lessons will take place during their reading time in the resource

room. These lessons will be taught over the span of five days.

The table below organizes the learning goals, objectives and activities aligned to each

lesson.
 Learning Goals
Learning Goal 1 Learning Goal 2
Students will know and apply grade level- Students will read with sufficient accuracy
phonics and word analysis skills in decoding and fluency to support comprehension.
words. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.4.4
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.4.3

Lessons Objectives Activities Assessment Date

Pre—assessment - Students will - Students will (Pre) 03/07/2018
Decoding Words demonstrate how read words -Listen to
to decode words aloud, determine students
Goals using grade level the number of accurately read
1 phonics syllables and words
accurately divide
the words in to - Observe work
correct syllables during and after

Lesson 1 - I can decode -Students will: -Observe Student 03/07/2018

multisyllabic - Read book completing work
Goals words using my with fluency
1 word strategy - find and - collect
2 skills. decode words independent
- I can read with - break words work
fluency and into syllables
accuracy to - Read passage
support timed with
comprehension. accuracy and
- I can spell fluency
words based on
spelling rules I
know.
Lessons Objectives Activities Assessment Date
Lesson 2 - I can decode -Students will: -Observe Student 03/09/2018
multisyllabic - Read book completing work
Goals words using my with fluency
1 word strategy - find and - collect
2 skills. decode words independent
- I can read with - break words work
fluency and into syllables
accuracy to - Read passage
support timed with
comprehension. accuracy and
- I can spell fluency
words based on
spelling rules I
know.

Lesson 3 - I can decode -Students will: -Observe Student 03/12/2018

multisyllabic - Read book completing work
Goals words using my with fluency
1 word strategy - find and - collect
2 skills. decode words independent
- I can read with - break words work
fluency and into syllables
accuracy to - Read passage
support timed with
comprehension. accuracy and
- I can spell fluency
words based on
spelling rules I
know.
Lessons Objectives Activities Assessment Date
Lesson 4 - I can decode -Students will: -Observe Student
multisyllabic - Read book completing work
Goals words using my with fluency
1 word strategy - find and - collect
2 skills. decode words independent
- I can read with - break words work
fluency and into syllables
accuracy to - Read passage
support timed with
comprehension. accuracy and
- I can spell fluency
words based on
spelling rules I
know.

Lesson 5 - I can decode -Students will: -Observe Student

multisyllabic - Read book completing work
Goals words using my with fluency
1 word strategy - find and - collect
2 skills. decode words independent
- I can read with - break words work
fluency and into syllables
accuracy to - Read passage
support timed with
comprehension. accuracy and
- I can spell fluency
words based on
spelling rules I
know.
 Implementing CFA information

For my teacher work sample I have decided to work with one individual student for their

reading group who receives This particular student struggles with reading fluency and accuracy

and, using grade level phonics and word analysis skills to decode words. This student receives

specialized instruction for reading. Keeping all of this information in mind I have implemented a

lesson which provides ample opportunities for the student to practice her decoding skills and

apply those skills in improving her reading fluency and accuracy. I have used the information

gained from my contextual factors analysis to create lessons that meat her IEP goals and directly

align with the common core state standards. I learned from this research that this student is

below her peers in the grade level bench marks based on her NWEA scores. Using the

information gained from this research has proven to beneficial as I have been able to learn what

the students strengths and weaknesses are in reading.