Test Assessment #3 Notes

Since book handling is a very important part of learning to read, I chose to do a test of print concepts. Most concepts he understood. He did not point to the bottom of the page when I asked him to point to it. He also did not turn to the lower line, instead he turned the page. While taking the test he remarked, "This is boring." He commented that he knew sign language. When he was asked to circle one word, he circled 2 words instead. He also circled the whole sentence and he did not circle individual letters. I used the modified test version because he does not know punctuation marks or some of the concepts in the longer version of the test. Next, I administered “The Book Handling Knowledge Guidelines Test.” He scored 14/21, which is 66%. He called a period a polka dot. He did not know what commas , quotation marks, or exclamation marks were. When I asked him to show me a lower case letter like a l. He pointed to an exclamation mark. When I asked him to point to two words. He only pointed to one. Therefore, he needs to work on lower case letters and punctuation and word and letter recognition.