Making little progress

xav

I'm working on getting a website to transcribe a recording of an interview I did with Xavier last week. I  had him tell me what was happening in his book and then read a page or two and tell me.  I noticed:
-he still does not understand what he reads
-he lacks intonation in reading and thus misses important information, like if something is italicized it will change the meaning of the sentence
-when I stop and ask him questions, he might not know then, but it keeps it in his mind and was able to answer some of the questions later.
-he doesn't/can't word solve
-he'll pick random pieces of information, similar to Joshua and try to string together a narrative.

This is incredibly frustrating and disconcerting. The same thing happened when I did a reading assessment with Joshua.  The book was a persuasive letter from a kid suggesting that kids only spend 20% of their time in school and that leaves 80% outside of school. Her letter suggests that they need community centers. His retelling said that only 20% of kids are in school and the other 80% like work and stuff.

I feel really stuck.  We're not doing lit circles at the moment but I'm going to start a new book clubs thing this week. Students will get to choose a book that they want to read. I'm still limited by the fact that we only have certain sets of books.  I'm hoping that peer excitement for books, (bc actually all of my focal students are friends with people who are good readers) will lead to wanting to actually know what's happening in the book.


-questions can help lead to understanding.
-vocabulary issue?
-constructors
-decoding is taking away from his ability to understand

A good first step would be to write down all the words you don't know as you read. How can I incentivize caring?

He's just reading the words on the page. When he's asked to explain what happened, he just tries to come up with narrative of the book, but it's not actually the narrative of the book.

It brings me back to right book right kid. Also, I think there's a real issue of vocabulary development bc if you know the words you're going to be able to focus on the meaning of what you're reading if you know the words, right?

So,between now and the end of the year:  peer focused book clubs, a strong focus on vocabulary developement and some external reward for understanding your book?  I have no idea what that would be.