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the end of the program she recognized 32 words from the Edmark
sight word list. During the
instruction phrase, C gained on average 4.25 words per week. At
first, C was not completely on
target with the aimline during the first four weeks of
instruction, but after that she began to gain
more words per week and began to exceed the goals.
Discussion Section
I believe that this program was moderately effective. While C
made progress throughout
the program, I believe that an alternative form of instruction
may be more beneficial.
Additionally, C had many health concerns during the first month
of the program, resulting in
inconsistent instruction and unusable data during that time
period. Once Cs health was stabilized
and instruction was occurring each day on a regular basis, she
began making progress and
gaining more words.
In addition to the Edmark Reading program, I began also using
another form of
instruction. We had 26 cards, each with one letter of the
alphabet. C would say the sound that
each letter would make. Once done with this, we would put the
letters together to make nonsense
words. C would say each sound, then put together the entire
word. I believe that this addition
helped C to figure out some words that she would not know at
first sight.
C began to enjoy the program. She looked forward to doing well
on the different aspects.
It was very helpful that the program was not the same thing over
and over again, but instead had
many components that we would do each day. C really enjoyed
reading the stories and using the
phrase cards, which she would put in order to make the correct
sequence of the pictures. Also, I
think that C enjoyed the one-on-one time with me. Since this
time was usually the only one-on-
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one time that C received each day, she loved the individual
attention and worked harder to excel
at it.
As I stated above, C had a lot of health problems during the
first month or so of the
program. This absolutely delayed progress, but once the health
problems were no longer a
concern she did much better. Additionally, Edmark is not the
most exciting program. As Edmark
is largely a sight word program, there could be much more
interesting and active programs for
students to learn sight words. There are many fun activities
that can be done to learn sight words,
rather than just sitting and reading words on a page. Finally,
Edmark takes a very long time to
conduct, whereas some other sight word programs may not take
quite as long, allowing more
time for instruction for other aspects of reading, as well as
quicker progress towards learning the
sight words.
