jen_journal+5

March 5, 2009 As a requirement for another education course I gave one of my students a spelling inventory. The inventory was given one-on-one to a fourth grade female student. I asked her to spell twenty-five words increasing in difficulty. I pulled her aside from the rest of the class and asked her if she would like to take the test, when she agreed I gave her a piece of paper and pencil in order to write her responses on it. The spelling inventory tested the student’s use of digraphs, dipthongs, blends, use of vowels, consonants, affixes, suffixes, and correct spelling. Although, the student never received her score I was able to practice assessment by evaluating how she did on the different measures of spelling. The student made it to the end of the spelling inventory (if she spelled five or more words wrong in a row, then we would have stopped the test.) I would use this assessment in my class; however it is time consuming and would probably be only used once or twice during the year so that I could evaluate the starting point and progress of a student. I also would give the student a copy of their work so that they could see how they are doing and what they are doing well as well as what they could use some more work on.

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