Yesterday we have had our inquiry meeting where we had the opportunity to discuss our inquires with other teachers at school. The group that I decided to collaborate with was those with a focus group of children who are reading to learn. As I am inquiring into my students who are beginning to read to learn. As I was listening to some of the others in my inquiry group it made me think about pervious years of inquiry that I have done in year 6 and seeing a number of students reading between the ages of 9-9.5 years.
Target group pondering:
As I am thinking about my hypothesis and what are some of the things that might be important to my inquiry it has made me reflect on my previous years inquiries. This year my target group is my students in year 5 who are reading between the ages of 7.5-8.5 years. While I have been focusing on these group of students I have also been thinking about my students who are reading at 9 years.
What is the significance of these readers at 9 years?
This is something that I have been wondering about as I focus on my students reading under 8.5 years.These group of students are just below the reading age for their level by the end of the year they should be reading at the age of 10 years. I have about 10 or 11 students at this level. The reason I am thinking about these group of learners is the importance of the shift they need to also make this year. From observing previous year 6 students there does seem to be a number of them reading between the ages of 9 and 9.5 in year 6 which also seems to be a level where students get "stuck" with making progress. I'm not changing my target group however this is another group that I will keep a close eye on with reading and will continue to observe and record this group in order to see what I can do to make sure that these students don't become year 6 students reading at 9 and 9.5 years.
Just an interesting observation I thought that I would share. I will continue to update on this throughout the year also.
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