This year our school management team identified the need to focus on learners reading well below the expected reading level for their age. Because of this, I have changed my target group. Last year I focused on accelerating my learners reading between the ages of 7-9 years. In my learning space with two other teachers we have found there is a need to continue on focusing on these learners at these levels for the rest of the year.
My new target group will be looking at how to facilitate shift and learning outcomes. The group of learners that I will be looking at are reading between 6.5 - 7.5 years. My target group is a mixture of year 5 and 6 learners who are reading between these ages.
The first thing I did was identify these learners from my class and then have a look at the data for their reading over the last few years to see if there were any trends in the data. I looked not only at the reading age of each of these learners but also at the PM level they were reading at. Some of the PM levels require learners to pass more than one test to go up a reading age. Below is my initial look at the data. I have tested each of these learners in Term 3 to make sure that these are the right levels and reading ages for them.
Over the next few weeks I will be reading with my learners focus on what key areas they need to focus on in their reading. This data is something that I will continue to focus on and refer back to in order to see if there is any change and shift in the data and what we are implementing.
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