Know your Learners as Readers - Day 2 Fri 6th March

Today we have seen how to develop a love for reading through digital tool. Digital tool is not only for finding, but how we are putting a bundle of week lesson together.

Sharing our finding from last session was interesting- as most schools has a similar results as mine. Common ones were children having only school to support their reading are the text books and Duffy books that our children are given from school. Children needs lots of exposure to reading of different genres.

I have contacted our local library. We will visit the Otahuhu Library fortnightly as well we will visit our School library weekly. Hopefully this will increase our borrowing power and reading mileage.

The Ground Rules are at inital stage but my class is getting hang of it. Next step for me is putting a wall display.

I have learnt the importance of knowing my learners, and tracking their progress thoughtout the year. How will I support my learners to become better at comprehension and use different stategies when reading.
We used PAT Panui Reading to see where to find the gaps of the learners. At this I enjoyed navigating it and found the tools effective. There might be few changes in my Reading Groups based on the skills needed. Digging deeper into NZCER and using scale scores is actually telling me about progress happening rather then seeing only the stanine.
Used the data from Reading test to identify the children needing more support. For example the inferencing group that I will use in my class.

The different types of assessment - formative and summative to guide me to my planning and assesment will continue.

In today's session, we reviewed the learning intention and success criteria and how co constructing with learners will emphasis their understanding.

Thank you Dorthy, Kiri, Amie and Georgie 🙏