Explore The Human Body: The Tiger Story

Mission: Ka`a`awa School Community members will provide a student-centered learning environment to support student competency and achievement of the standards.

Vision: Ka`a`awa School students will be competent, responsible, productive individuals prepared for future challenges.

Programs: Success For All (SFA), Gardening/Earth Club, Speech Therapist, Kulia (after school tutoring).

He informed me that he does not like to read, but when he does, his favorite type of book is non-fiction. He told me he really likes a book called “Explore the Human Body: The Skeleton.”

He lives with his mother and father. He has one sister and one brother.

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He does not always remember to raise his hand, and instead blurts out answers.

He rushes through his work, which means he does not always do it well.

I chose to use a passage called “The Tiger Story.” It is 148 words long. It is from the Macmillan/McGraw-Hill California Treasures Reading Program website. The passage is informative non-fiction, which is Brandon’s favorite type of literature.

Brandon read through the passage very quickly, and for the most part, he did well. However, he fell into the fallacy that quick reading means good reading. His speedreading caused him to miss a few words and he rarely bothered to self-correct himself when he made mistakes. His pronunciation was not always clear. He also began substituting the word “mom,” for “mother,” likely because it is more familiar , as well as easier and quicker to say.

Brandon finished the passage quickly, but it was clear that he did not comprehend what he was reading. He was just decoding the text. Once he was finished, I asked him the follow up questions:

Tell me two facts about tigers that you learned from the story.

Where do most tigers live