Personal Statement: What Went Right Student

What went right?
I knew that this would be a challenging task for a majority of students, since many students are still learning their letter-sound correspondence; however, I was able to successfully complete this strategy with the class’s highest student. I displayed an image on my screen of a little boy throwing a frisbee to his dog. I asked the student to write a sentence describing the image. The student was able to write, “The dog is running.” After the student explained what she wrote, we cut up her sentence. I explained to the student that we wanted to make her sentence grow by using descriptive words. She was then able to expand her sentence by writing “The brown dog is running.” The student then began to describe other things in the