June reflection on data

After looking at my data in more detail I have decided on some changes that I would like to make towards my intervention. One of the key things that I want to continue to work on is having an overall topic for the week for reading. After discussions with colleagues I have decided that I will make the focus of my writing task based on what we are learning in literacy for the week to maximise vocabulary retention and understanding. This won't be possible in all of the areas I am focusing in writing but one of my bug takeaways is making sure that the students have access to vocabulary from the text for the whole week. This will mean that I create my spelling list for the week based on the text the that students are reading and the words they will come across along with this linking to the overall topic focus for the week. That why the students are having access to these words and are able to see them as well as understand the meaning in serval different contexts. 

Another key thing I want to work on is the confidence my students have with their own reading. I want them to feel comfortable in sharing reading with others along with their ideas and opinions. I have started to move away from the hands up approach and allowing my students to have discussions where they know it is okay to disagree with someone else's point of view. 

Inferring questions, applied knowledge and vocabulary are my key areas to work on with my students during reading so I want to maximise this in my guided reading sessions. I can see that some of my students have a long way to go in order to match reading age and actual age so I will have a large focus on guided reading as well as using this knowledge in writing and even try and link this in to maths. I think they key is exposure to language so this will be my focus going forward. 

I have seen that my students are all keen to learn so I want to focus in on this. Again I still want to focus on wellbeing as I see this as a key to success as well. My next steps are to incorporate that I have learnt from the data into my guided reading lessons along with the follow up tasks and all key learning that we are doing for the week. Analysing this data has been very beneficial and has shown me the key next steps to take, which I am very excited for and keen to share!