Profiling

During my guided reading sessions for the last few weeks I have been making observations about my learners and trying to paint a picture of what the gaps are in the learning especially when it comes to reading. As I outlined in my previous post I was interested in two particular groups of learners 

1. Students reading between the ages of 7 and 8 years. 
2. Students reading between 8.5 and 9.5 years. 

What I have notices with my students who are reading between the ages of 7 and 8 years the decoding is a major part of what is holding my learners back. With this I can see that reading mileage is really important for this group. In 2019 I created a site which was specifically targeted at students reading between these levels. So in reflection what I have decided to do with this group is focus back on this site and adding the students from this year to create resources and read aloud videos for others to enhance that reading milage. 

My students who are reading between 8.5 and 9.5 years make up a large number of my students and have a range of different strategies and areas that need work. Due to having camp I have had less time than I would like to complete running records on these students so this is a priority for the rest of the term to try and see if I can pinpoint some key areas that need to be worked on for this group of students. So far I have had a look at PAT and Star data for this group of students and will analyse this in more detail over the coming weeks and try to break it down and find trends in the data. 

I am still  a bit of a work in progress so far with this inquiry, I have tried to focus most of my profiling from what I can see in front of me with my guided reading sessions. I will take a deeper dive into this for the rest of the term and see if there are any other key things I need to add to my wonderings before I had a solid hypothesis around what I think is going on.