End of Year Reflection

This term has been a very busy term with testing and getting things sorted for the end of the year. The children in my focus have been coming to school daily and have improved in their reading. 

 What’s has been working: 

 I have been consistent in using the Gwenneth Phillips prompts and following what Helen Squires suggested at the PD at our Teachers Only Day. 

 - Giving a short introduction to the book and then giving the children the readers to read. - Looking at vocabulary and meaning of words. - Giving children multiple opportunities to share and discuss what they have read. 

 - Comprehension and inference questions for eg. the author mentioned that “Kitty cat was naughty.’ What do you think? Is Kitty Cat really naughty? Prove it. Where is the evidence? Where does it say that in the text? 

 - Giving children time to notice the errors they making and self correct their reading. - Using the prompt ‘you know a word that ends like this’, can ran. Prior to our instructional reading, I would remind children to listen to their reading, check to see: Does it look right, does it sound right, does it make sense? If not, then they got to fix it up. 

 I am pleased with the children progress. In term 2 they were reading Red 1 Level 3 and now they reading at Blue 1 Level 9. All four students can confidently monitor their reading by asking themselves, does it look right, does it sound right, does it make sense? They are attempting unknown words by breaking them into parts, looking for known words and looking for clues in the picture. They are also looking at the beginning, middle and ends sounds whereas before they would just look at the initial letter and guessed a word they know starting with that letter. All of my students got support from home with their learning and this made a big difference to their learning and progress.