Third Reading Observation

For my third reading observation of Jaelee, I went on a nature walk with her class. Before the nature walk Ms. Reta had all the children sit in front of the board and list of some things they want to see on their walk. Jaelee sat in front of the board, quietly and payed attention. She also participated naming of some things she would like to see on the nature walk, she said she would like to see a tree, a flower, and a butterfly. After that the children lined up, and we went on the nature walk. During the walk Jaelee was very well behaved, she was excited about going on the walk. While we were walking Jaelee pointed out different types of trees, she saw an apple tree and knew that it was called an apple tree. She would pick up flowers and rocks
Ms. Reta was going to read Widget by Lyn Rossiter McFarland. Jaelee sat in front, and listened to the story. She did not misbehave, and participated in the questions the teacher was asking. Ms. Reta asked what sound does a dog make and Jaelee with the rest of the children responded “Woof”. Towards the end of the story there was a part where a character in the book, an old woman had fallen down and was not responding, Jaelee looked at her teacher and said “this story is going to make me cry”. From her response I could tell that Jaelee understood the story and was really paying attention the
Next Jaelee and I went over to the library corner in her class room; I had her pick out some book she would like to read to me. Jaelee is able to hold a book properly and is able to turn the pages. Jaelee is not able to read the words in the book but can use the pictures to make up her own story. The book Jaelee picked out was The Boy Who Wouldn’t Share by Mike Reiss; she knew what the book was about because she heard it before. She knew the name of the book, but when I asked her what the title of the book was and pointed to the word boy she couldn’t read it. But Jaelee did a great job of telling me what the story using the pictures. For example there was a picture of a boy hiding and Jaelee had said that he was hiding from everyone because he did not want to share. Jaelee had told me the way she reads books is by having the story is in her head, I asked her what that means and she said that she knows the story by looking at the picture. Jaelee does not understand that the books contain a massage. She can recognize her own name in print and is able to listen to a story being