Mid Year Reflection

 After completing the BSLA Week 10 Testing and analysing the data, I changed the students in my focus group. This term, I will focus on supporting Student A, Student MT, Student M and Student F. I made this change to better support the learning needs shown in the assessment.

As a result, I have adjusted my planning to ensure that each lesson is targeted to these students' next steps. To support oral language development and comprehension, I regularly use ChatGPT to generate story-specific prompts including retelling, inferencing and open-ended questions.I have streamlined my planning and this has increased the effectiveness of my teaching. I have observed noticeable growth in my students’ confidence, their ability to engage in meaningful conversations about the story and their ability to make connections with their own experiences. These improvements show that the students are getting better at understanding stories and talking about them,

Next Steps

Next Steps for Strengthening Comprehension Skills:

Foster Active Listening Skills:

Continue to reinforce the importance of listening to peers before responding, supporting peer turn- talking

and discussion.

Use of Visual Support:

Incorporate pictures and illustrations from the reader/story to ehlp students make connections between

text and visuals.

Ask open-ended questions:

Use more open -ended prompts to encourage deeper thinking.

Promote predictive Thinking: 

Encourage students to make predictions to support engagement and inference-making.

Encourage Peer Sharing: 

Provide opportunities for group discussions, students can share personal responses and justify their

thinking.

Integrate Movement: 

Use drama, gestures and physical expression to help students show understanding and maintain

engagement.