Thursday, 28 April 2022

Baseline Data

All but one of this cohort of students has excellent school attendance. This data was gathered from their most recent PAT Reading Comprehension assessment and Running Records. Student TeAu was absent for the PAT assessment.

Wednesday, 6 April 2022

Growth Cycle: Inquiry Focus 2022

To incorporate extended discussions within reading through Reciprocal Teaching, to accelerate students' overall comprehension of multimodal texts, therefore building students' communication skills. My focus is on developing their ability to explain and justify their thinking, as this is an area of weakness for my students.

Target students

My target cohort is a small group of 5 tamariki who are just at the expected level for reading. I chose these students as I feel they lack some of the communication skills required to progress more and that it is holding back their ability to confidently move ahead. 

I believe these particular students will pick up the reciprocal teaching strategies quickly and we should soon see positive results. Then these students will be able to become mentors within the class to help establish reciprocal teaching and extended discussions with their peers.