Case Study outline

1. Case Study Outline
Please write the case study in paragraph (not outline) format.
I. Background Information
a. Student name (pseudonym)
b. Age
c. Grade (retention, if known)
d. Health information (attendance from teacher if available)
i. Known vision or hearing problems, ADD, ADHD, etc.
e. Family information
i. Parents—occupation, reading habits, etc.
ii. Siblings—birth order
iii. (Mobility – new to school, number of schools)
f. School information
i. Special services received
ii. Behavioral information from teacher if available
iii. Demographics of school – free and reduced lunch, Title 1
iv. Number of students in classroom
g. Include other relevant information
II. Testing Conditions
a. Location of testing and possible effects on test results
b. Observation of student behavior during testing and possible effects on test results
c. Number of times you have met with student
d. Frequency of interruptions of test
III. Test Results
a. Attitude/interest surveys
i. Brief description of assessment
ii. Results

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1. Student responses to questions asked
iii. Analysis
1. Implications of response on reading performance.
b. BRI
i. Brief description of assessment
ii. Results (put in a table or graph)
1. Miscues—types/numbers
2. Comprehension—types of questions/numbers
iii. Analysis
1. Miscues
2. Comprehension
c. Additional assessments (describe each assessment with results and analysis)
i. Quick Phonics Screener
ii. Spelling Inventory
iii. DIBELS
iv. Strategies survey
IV. Instructional focus
a. Word Recognition Skills
i. Phonological awareness
1. Skill: Rhyming, blending, segmenting, manipulation, etc.
2. Tools or technique: Elkonin boxes, pictures,
3. Student’s response
ii. Phonics skill
1. Skill: Short vowel, long vowels (silent e, vowel pairs, etc), digraphs,
multisyllabic words (root words prefix, suffix, compound words, syllable
rules, etc.)
2. Tools or technique: flash cards, white boards, word games

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3. Student’s response
iii. Sight words
1. Skill: High-frequency words (list in appendix)
2. Tools or technique:
3. Student’s response
b. Fluency
i. Repeated reading; Echo reading
1. Skill: To build automaticity, for practice, for expression, for rate, for
phrasing, etc.
2. Tools: Types of text (poetry, phrases, narrative, expository, etc.);
graphing
3. Student’s response
c. Comprehension strategies
i. Skill: Comprehension monitoring, predicting, asking questions, summarizing,
etc.
ii. Tools: Post-its,
iii. Student’s response:
d. Reading informational text
i. Skill: Text features; main idea; text structure; previewing
ii. Tools:
iii. Students response
e. Reading Literary text
i. Skill: Character development; theme;
ii. Tools:
iii. Student’s response
f. Writing

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i. Skill: Topic development and details; organization; word choice; conventions
ii. Tools:
iii. Student’s response
g. Computer literacy
i. Skill: Word processing; research; wiki
ii. Tools:
iii. Student’s response
V. Recommendations
a. Summarize student’s response to remediation
b. Based on this summary, what needs to be continued and what are next steps?
VI. References
VII. Appendices
a. Resources or tools to help parent and future tutor (sight words, websites, graphic
organizers, suggested books, assessments in the public domain)