Adapted from Developmental Reading Reflection document created by Sarah Mwangi, 06/13

Candidate Name_______ _____Kylee Eveans_________________Date____4/21/14___________

School___Eastmorland____Teacher___Woodruff ____Grade level__1___
Practicum Reflection-Guided Reading Lesson

Name of Book______NA ________Level______NA______________


1. What was the area of focus today during the lesson? What activities related to the area of focus
did the teacher include in the lesson today?
Because the students did not have school Friday, Mrs. Woodruff was doing her testing while I was
observing. She takes a running record and a phonemic awareness record on each student so that she is
always up to date on where each student is at. She also said that she does this so that groups are as up
to date as possible and everyone is in the correct group and reading at the correct level. The other
students were in the regular reading rotations.
What went well with the instruction? What did students learn?
I think testing the students weekly is a great idea. It takes a lot of work, but it is best for the
students. They know what level they are at and what the score on the records, and always want to do
better. In this setting, the students are learning where they are at according to grade level, and they are
asking what they can do to move up to the higher levels. Overall, the students are highly motivated to
increase their reading ability.
2. Explain a growth moment for yourself where you realized, learned, or confirmed something
from today dealing with student achievement in the area of reading. (phonemic awareness,
phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, before/during/after reading.
Mrs. Woodruff had me do both a running record and a phonemic awareness record. It was a great
experience to do a real life record! Because she was doing her own record keeping she had a simple way
of doing it, so I was able to do it easily (kind of).
3. Describe a moment when a student grasped an idea/concept-that got it! kind of moment.
How was the teacher able to facilitate this experience? Explain the situation.
After the students did the phonemic awareness test, Mrs. Woodruff and I would go over it with the
student to show them what they had gotten wrong. Each time to student would same something like
Oh! and they understood it because it was explained to them.

There was no opportunity to put my lesson plan into action this day**********