January 29, 2016
Students were assessed in August when school began. January is approximately half way through the school year and it was time to assess everyone again today. My co-op was completing sight word assessments with students today. The goal was to see growth. After each student completed their assessment my co-op showed him/her where they were at the beginning of the school year. Almost every student had the same reaction on their face; "Wow...school really is teaching me something"! However, one little girl's assessment stopped me in what I was doing and I just stood and watched in awe.
Molly* was only on the pre-primer list of the Dolch Sight Words back in August. She is one of our lowest level readers and struggles in Language Arts in general. Her reading has improved, but I don't think I realized just how much it improved until today. This same little girl breezed through the pre-primer words, the primer words, the 1st grade words, the 2nd grade words and half way through the 3rd grade list of words. I can't even explain the overwhelming pride I felt. This is just one of the many reasons why I chose this profession. It is these moments that I am assured that this is absolutely where I want to be.
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