This year I am going to again inquire into reading. I had the opportunity to have fantastic reading PD which I would like to continue working on and developing in my class this year. I have a large number of year 5 learners who are reading between the ages of 7.5 and 9 years. This is a trend that I have also seen when teaching in year 6. This seems to be an age and level where a lot of our learners are "stuck" (for lack of a better word). This is something that I have been keeping an eye on over the last few years and now teaching in a year 5 space would like to try and figure out what is holding these learners back at this reading age.
Collaboration:
I have had a discussion with Latini Ilaoa one of the year 7/8 teachers at Pt England School who is also looking into reading as her inquiry this year also. Latini has a number of learners who are reading between the ages of 8-9.5 years also. We would like to work with together this year and along with some other teachers to look into this.
Target group:
So far I have identified my target group of students shown in the table below. For the next few weeks I will continue to note down what I am seeing from each of these students during guided reading sessions and see if there are patterns in what they are struggling with and if they are similar.
Next steps:
I would like to look back at the last few years of students running records and see if there is a trend with their data and achievement. I will also look at each of their running records and see if there is a specific area that is holding these students back from making progress in their reading. I would also like to talk with some of the other CoL teachers regarding their inquires and see if there are any links or similarities that we are finding.
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