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Courtney Raia
Instructional Program
Student: SH
Skill: Reading Comprehension
Initiator: Courtney Raia
Context for Instruction: Instruction and assessment for this skill will occur during the
students seventh period co-taught English/Language Arts class. When it is time for instruction
and assessment, the student will be prompted to go into the hallway, a quiet area where there will
be both himself and the initiator. Materials needed for this assessment include a book of the
students preference, data sheets, and occasionally questions for the student to respond to.
Program Objective: When reading a passage at a fourth grade level, SH will demonstrate
comprehension by correctly responding to both recall and higher order questions about the text
orally. Mastery will be when he can correctly respond to 80% of the questions on five
consecutive trials.
Generalization: A program common stimuli strategy can be used to ensure that SH is able to
comprehend reading texts at his reading level (about fourth grade) in any class or location. This
can be done by teaching SH using books of similar difficulty and length for all reading sessions
and assessments. This way, he will recognize the format and be able to comprehend the text
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while reading in a class, independently, or in various other situations that require reading
independently at the individuals reading level. The common stimulus, the type of reading, will
allow him to generalize this reading ability. This can be monitored by occasionally asking him to
use the same level text style but in a different class, on a different subject, or at a different time
of the day and to see if the skill has been generalized.
Rationale:Increasing SHs reading comprehension is important because understanding what is
being read is a vital skill in order to succeed as he furthers in his education, and improving in
order to get him closer to grade level would be ideal. Being able to correctly respond to
questions about the text one is reading is an evidence-based method of demonstrating knowledge
about the reading. Asking the various levels of questions will help the student not only recall
information about the text, but also to infer and use background knowledge to further understand
it.
Assessment Procedure: The students reading comprehension will be assessed using
Curriculum Based Measurement via the AIMSweb MAZE assessment. This reading
comprehension assessment requires the student to read a passage at his reading level and to circle
the work that makes sense in the content of the passage. The procedures are as follows:
1. Sit across from the student and provide him with one copy of the CBM Reading MAZEassessment.
2. Tell the student to read and choose the words that make the most sense in the story whenhe gets to the bolded parts of the text.
3. Set the timer for three minutes and tell the student to begin.
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4. At the end of three minutes, tell the student to stop and put his pencil down.5. Use the answer key to determine the number of words circled correctly and the number of
errors that the student made.
Assessment Schedule: SH should be assessed for baseline data by completing a different
MAZE assessment at his instructional level as frequently as possible until the results are
consistent and baseline is stable. Once instruction begins, the student should be assessed using
the same methods once per week every Wednesday during his English/Language Arts class.
Instructional Procedure: Instruction will occur using a book at the fourth grade reading level
on a topic of the students interest. The lessons will last about ten-fifteen minutes on each day
that time allows, which will independent work time during the English/Language Arts class
where the student will not be missing content. The lessons on reading comprehension will go as
follows:
1. Provide the student with the text and give him a section of the text to read (2-3paragraphs, as appropriate).
2. Review what happened the last time the story was read. What does the studentremember? What did we predict last time? Recap.
3. Explain to the student that we will take turns asking each other questions about what wehave read to make sure we understand what we are reading. Tell him to try to ask
questions that he thinks a teacher would ask.
4. Instruct the student to read the passage silently. Tell him at what point to begin reading,and at what point to stop reading.
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5. When both readers are finished reading the passage, tell the student that he will ask thequestions first. Explain that he can ask as many questions as he would like, and that the
person who is answering questions cannot use the book for help.
6. Tell the student that the only rule for answering questions is that I dont know is not anaccepted response.
7. Instructor closes book and student asks questions. Model appropriate answers for thestudent.
8. Tally the number of recall and higher order questions that the student asks that arerelevant to the text.
9. If the student asks an unrelated question, prompt him to look at the text and try anotherquestion about what happened.
10.Switch roles. The student closes his book and the instructor questions the student with avariety of questions, both recall and higher-order level questions.
11.Keep track of the number of questions that are asked, and the number that the student didnot respond to correctly.
12.If the student responds I dont know, tell him that answer isnt accepted and to try hisbest to think of an answer.
13.Predictionask the student to predict what will happen the next time we read. This willbe recorded and reviewed at the next session, as it sets a purpose for reading.
Both the number of questions the student asks and correctly answers should be graphed after
each instructional session so he can see his progress for the week. Before beginning each
session, the student should be shown how he did the last time and encouraged to increase the
number of questions and correct responses that day.
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Reinforcement: The student will be reinforced with direct and specific verbal praise both while
asking questions and answering questions. From collecting baseline data, it is clear that the
student is motivated by his own score and seeing his progress charted, so encouraging him to
keep increasing his score and praising his effort will also be beneficial.
Maintenance: Once a week following mastery, the student should be assessed using a fourth
grade level AIMSweb MAZE comprehension assessment. If the student continues to show that
he has maintained comprehension skills, by reaching or passing the 50th
percentile, this can be
reduced to once a month, then once every three months, and then so on to ensure that the skill is
maintained. If his comprehension at the fourth grade reading level is not maintained, the
schedule can be increased again to be checked more often, along with beginning instruction as
needed (begin instruction if he begins to score less than the 50th
percentile).
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Assessment DataScores on AIMSweb Reading Comprehension Assessments
Date Correct Responses Number of Errors Percentile Rank
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Instructional Data on Comprehension Questions Student Asks
Instructions: Place a tally mark for each question the student asks in the appropriate column.
Date
Questions Asked
Recall Higher-Order(Inferential)
Not Related Notes
Instructional Data on Number of Questions Responded to Correctly
Instructions: Place a tally mark for each question asked to the student in the appropriate
column. Make note of the type of questions student has difficulty answering
Date Correct Response Incorrect Response Notes
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Number of Correct Responses on Comprehension Assessments
0
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5
Correct Responses
Errors
Date
NumberofResponses