When teaching literacy skills in the classroom, teachers must be mindful of the varying literacy skills and abilities each student possesses and create instruction and learning opportunities that can help students practice their skills, particularly in students who have reading deficits. The ability to structure activities that allow students repeated practice in deficit skill areas can lead to improvements in these areas and allow students to become proficient readers.
Allocate at least 6 hours in the field to support this field experience.
Note: This assignment is due at the end of Topic 3.
Part 1: Identifying Skills Deficits Teach a mentor,          ( Ms JEON). First grade. Reading teacher)
With your mentor, complete the following.
Identify 1-2 students with similar literacy skills deficits. Discuss why these are considered deficits and which milestone skills the students have not demonstrated and/or mastered.
Review existing skills data and reading performance for the students and discuss the specific needs the students have to overcome the skills deficits.

Discuss strategies and activities that have been previously applied to help the students overcome the deficits, including the successes and challenges associated with each strategy/activity.
Identify and develop a practice activity that you can do with the students to practice the deficit area skills. Ensure that you understand how the activity should help the students improve in the deficit area.
Practice executing the activity with your mentor in the role of the student to ensure that you are correctly implementing each step of the activity.
Part 2: Addressing Skills Deficits
Under your mentor’s supervision, complete the following.

Work with the students you and your mentor identified in Part 1 to implement the practice activity designed to help the students improve their deficit area skills. You should meet with the students at least twice and conduct the practice activity with them so they can improve in the skills deficit areas.
Debrief with your mentor to discuss the effectiveness of your implementation of the activity and the students’ response to the activity.
Use any remaining field experience hours to provide support or assistance to the class as directed by your mentor.

In a 250-word reflection, addressing the following.
Describe the skills deficits exhibited by the students and the activity you developed to help them practice and improve their skills in the deficit areas.

Describe the results of implementing the practice activity with the students and discuss the long-term results you would expect to see if you did this type of activity with the students over an extended period of time.
Reflect on your execution of the activity and its effectiveness. Include a discussion of both successes and challenges as well as changes you would make if implementing the activity again.