Brendon's Reading Skills

Introduction:
The first running record was taken on six year old Brendon; he’s in first grade at the University of Hartford Magnet School. Brendon read Farmer Dan’s Ducks with me, which is a level D book with 126 words. There were pictures that corresponded with the words on each page. On almost every page the text was on the left and the picture was on the right.
Burke interview: Brendon seems to rely a lot on pictures. He says he sounds things out, but as I interviewed him he made it obvious that he prefers to draw meaning from the picture while he’s reading. Relying on the pictures for meaning too much make it seem like he does not have skills in all three cueing systems. If he relies on his too much for too long his reading skill will
He would be in the middle of a sentence and look up at something. This was what caused a lot of his miscues. He would say a word that was completely different from that of the one he was supposed to be reading, but what he said was somewhere else on the page; he would look up quickly and lose track of where he was, so he’d pick up at a random word. We also began reading sitting with our legs crossed on the floor. He began to move around a lot while he was reading. Brendon eventually ended up lying on his stomach, and trying to read as he rolled back and forth on his stomach. I asked him to sit up because I could tell it was making it hard for him to read, but he told me he could read fine the way he was. This behavior definitely affected his ability to read, recognize words, and read fluently. However, not all of his mistakes were visual, so if he were sitting still while reading, he would most likely still make those miscues or other similar miscues. The reading behavior that I noticed was that Brendon relied far too much on looking at the pictures. On one page he described only the picture to me, then tried to turn the page without reading the words. This shows his reliance on the pictures, and that he may be trying to actively avoid