Oh What Great Listening Skills You Have
DJ has great listening skills. As I read the fifth grade passages, she never was distracted even when another teacher came into my room. It my also helped that her class is study pioneers and she built her own pioneer house. The passage “Pioneer House Building” did not give her a challenge and was familiar reading. This inference allowed her to not miss one of the comprehension questions. On the 6 grade passage “Museum Visit”, she got all the “right there” questions from the passage. DJ struggled with the definition of unfamiliar words like “exhibit” so she missed 2 of the questions that refer to that word. In went ahead to 7th grade “Capture and Freedom”, but soon learned that the vocabulary was definitely to advance for her to comprehend and she was not good looking at context clues for word meaning.