Student Case Study (Student R)
Background:
R is in 8th grade and she has recently moved school as her family has moved to the country due to her dad’s work. English is her second language and she requires extra work with grammar, writing composition.
Targeted Behaviors:
To be able to complete her assignments on time.
To articulate her ideas and arguments logically and comprehensibly.
Student Strengths:
Has innovative ideas and eager and quick to learn.
Desired Outcome
Confidence in English
Forming sentences and paragraphs following grammatical rules
Environment
An encouraging environment where she can receive help from other students or teacher (me) about vocabulary or sentence writing
Procedures
Provide more extensive comments and feedback for Y’s papers, annotating all the grammatical errors and how she could improve them.
Correcting any misuse of words, or providing synonyms as necessary.
Providing her with extra grammar books and vocabulary books for extra work if requested by the parents during parents teacher conference.
Complimenting and rewarding her for her improvement and raising awareness that students with English as second language all go through similar processes and showing successful cases where they have achieved mastery in English.
Providing opportunities for editing her work and resubmitting them for extra credit.
Providing extra reading and writing assignments from class library as necessary for topics requiring additional practice.
Instruction
Make efficient use of class or your own dictionary and thesaurus in completing assignments.
Ask questions for clarification even if after class for additional explanations regarding assignments if any.
Write rewrites incorporating comments and feedback for additional points to be provided for the assignment.
L is in 6th grade and she has recently moved school as her family has moved to the country due to her dad’s work. English is her second language and she requires extra work with grammar, writing composition.
Targeted Behaviors:
To be able to complete her assignments on time.
To articulate her ideas and arguments logically and comprehensibly.
Student Strengths:
Has innovative ideas and eager and quick to learn.
Desired Outcome
Confidence in English
Forming sentences and paragraphs following grammatical rules
Environment
An encouraging environment where she can receive help from other students or teacher (me) about vocabulary or sentence writing
Procedures
Provide more extensive comments and feedback for Y’s papers, annotating all the grammatical errors and how she could improve them.
Correcting any misuse of words, or providing synonyms as necessary.
Providing her with extra grammar books and vocabulary books for extra work if requested by the parents during parents teacher conference.
Complimenting and rewarding her for her improvement and raising awareness that students with English as second language all go through similar processes and showing successful cases where they have achieved mastery in English.
Providing opportunities for editing her work and resubmitting them for extra credit.
Providing extra reading and writing assignments from class library as necessary for topics requiring additional practice.
Instruction
Make efficient use of class or your own dictionary and thesaurus in completing assignments.
Ask questions for clarification even if after class for additional explanations regarding assignments if any.
Write rewrites incorporating comments and feedback for additional points to be provided for the assignment.
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