Restating my question

Creating and looking at my casual chain in my last post was really helpful to see what I changes I can make through intervention. This also gave me a clear understanding of my expectations as a teacher and what I need to achieve. This also gave me clearer direction for my students and the expectations that I have set out. This will also help with the success criteria for my students so they also understand what is expected from them during learning. 

It has now come to the time where I need to restate my inquiry question and think about my next steps, where I am going with my inquiry as well as highlighting interventions that I will use. Firstly here is my restated inquiry question:

How to enhance well being and enjoyment and accelerate reading achievement for those students reading between the ages of 8 and 9 years.

Initially I was just going to look at accelerating reading achievement but reflecting on the changes and things that have happened in previous years and this year has highlighted the importance to wellbeing as well as student enjoyment which will in turn have an affect on achievement. 

My next steps are:

• Continue to joining reading and writing with an overall focus for both for the week so that the students are exposed to key vocabulary throughout the week and know how to use these words in different contexts. 
• Take my students to the library as much a possible to expose them to different types of text and work on choosing books for enjoyment rather than just reading because they have to. 
• Assess student wellbeing through our mitey framework lessons as well as completing the survey I completed at the beginning of the year to see how students feel coming to school. 
• Continue to have spelling words directly related to the text to expose students to these words. 
• Continue class read alouds related to the topic that we are learning about for the week again to continue to build vocabulary development.
• Incorporate art, dance and drama into my reading sessions so that students can learn about these in different ways. 

I have some key things that I want to implement into my literacy program and by restating my inquiry question again I have clarity over what I am trying to achieve and the direction that I want this to take.