Testing Reflection Journal

Test I:
First my subject wrote a writing sample of the alphabet. While he was writing the alphabet he sang the alphabet song. Every time he wrote a letter he sang the song to remember the next letter.

Part II:
Then he was tested on Letter Identification from, "An Observation Survey," by Marie M. Clay. When administering this test, I showed the child a list of letters which are upper and lower case letters. The child pointed to the letters he knew first and then said the sound for the letter and he gave a word that began with the letter. The main objective of this test was to determine the child's depth of understanding of letters and their relationship to words. I noticed a pattern in his association with letters. Most of the words he came up with were from his friend's names at pre-school, cartoon character names (Chum Chum), places he had been (Auto Zone), from books his mom had read to him (Cranium), a book his mom had read to him about the skeletal system,and from movies he had seen, such as Tower of Terror by Goosebumps.

Another observation I noticed was he missed some of the lower case letters. I think he missed these letters because most of the time he is taught upper case letters. He scored high on the letters he was accustomed to working with (upper-case). He thought q was a p, but he gave the right sound for the p and he came up with the proper word for it. He missed these lower case letters: n,b,k,w,N,u,W. During the test, he said "This is boring." So I decided to administer it in 2 sessions. I noticed toward the end of the test he had trouble sitting still and he began to miss more of the letters. His Total Score=115; Stanine Group-2 (He just turned 5.); He also scored 41/54 for his alphabet letters. He recognized 75% of the alphabet letters.