Day 9

Wow, it was a super quick week. Friday was very smooth with little disturbances. In the new classroom, I saw a vast improvement in the child with Autism. She transitioned well. Because it went so smoothly without any redirecting, I was able to work with an ESL learner. In talking with her we discovered she had no siblings, which makes it even harder to learn the English language, as she has no one to truly practice with at home. We have discovered she learns the material by memorization and is not actually reading the story. She was having trouble with the names of the story. We made her sound them out as she guessed wrong. She is having trouble with learning what she is reading and remembering it. In an effort to try and help her, I wrote six words down and we practiced them over and over, unfortunately she was unable to retain the information. I know this because when we read the story it was like she had never seen it before. It leaves me baffled, because she remembers some of the story verbatim, but can't remember the word "sat" as a sight word....