observations

The other day at observations I worked with a child who i considered special ed. He was in a collaborative classroom and they were working on writing a letter to the principal about getting new play ground equipement and using persausive arguments in order to convince her. The child had very short term memory and therefore cant apply anythig he wants to say to paper that makes direct since becausehe has a struggle with spelling. The child is very smart and understands and can orally explain his answers but uses random letters to spell the words he is wanting to say when he writes it. As he would write it I couldnt quit make out what he was writing becuase of the spelling he used. I would ask him to read it for me and he would be able to read write from the paper what he wanted to say. It was a interesting observation that he could make out what he was writing with the way he was spelling even though it was normally random letters thrown together. BUT we worked through it, correctly spelt the words and he wrote his persausive letter along with all of his other peers :)