Bursts & Bubbles

Last week I had the pleasure to present my CoL inquiry at Bursts and Bubbles which was hosted by Panmure Bridge School. I have just added in the video recording of my pretension incase you missed it and want to check it out, I have also added in a previous blog post my script if you would prefer to read than watch the presentation. 

Raising Reading Achievement Site - MIT 2019

Reflections and next steps:

It has come to that time of year where I am reflecting on what I have learnt through this MIT experience. I have had many ups and downs along with big changes throughout the year. I am on track with my reading site with still needing to add some resources sitting in my drive for my site to be fully functional. They purple level for learners reading at 8 years is good to go I am just adding resources to the gold and silver levels. 

End of year data:

I have now looked at my end of year data and can see that all of my learners have made progress this year in reading. I have placed the graphs below where I have shown reading age improvement as well as reading level improvement. The reason I have chosen to use reading level improvement is that some of the reading ages require learners to pass two test and although they may not look like they have improved in reading age they have improved a level since mid year testing.

The blue lines on the graph show end of 2018 reading ages and levels, the red lines show mid year 2019 data and the yellow lines show end of 2019 data. From this you can see that all of my learners have made some progress on paper but I think the biggest progress that I have seen is in the confidence of my learners in reading and the excitement that they have when it comes to reading now. 


The change is huge and really encouraging to see. Looking at the data closely I can see now that there are some who are now stuck at that 9 - 9.5 year range so this is something I will take into consideration and hopefully add to my site as well. 

Presentation:
The original presentation can be accessed from this blog post or can be watched in the video below. 

 
This is my presentation that I completed at the wanaga and have just recorded to show my journey. It is about 8 minutes long so below I will add time points where if you are just interested in my site you can see that, or if you are just wanting to have a look at the data you can go straight to these time points. I have also relinked my site into the post so please feel free to have a look around and let me know if you would like a copy of this to use in your own classroom.

Quick Time Links:
0:22 - 2018 Data 
1:20 - First steps 
2:46 - Screencast Example
4:17 - Mid year data
4:58 - How the site works
6:43 - Next steps and end of year data

Wananga Presentation - MIT 2019

Last week I had the opportunity to present my tool at the 2019 Wananga. we had to complete a pecha kucha style presentation where we had 20 slides and 20 seconds to present each slide. Here is my presentation and I will later add the notes. This was an incredible experience and opportunity to share my journey this year and how my tool has progressed into what I have now. 

KPMG Day 3 - MIT 2019

KPMG Day 3 - Raising Reading Achievement

Today we needed to put together what we have been working on and share our ideas at KPMG. This was a great time to reflect on what I have been doing and how my digital tool is coming along. We were asked to cover a few points which allowed my to reflect and think forward to what I need to continue to do to achieve my goal. 

What is the tool and what is it able to do?

It is a google site for students who are reading between the ages of 7 and 9. It will include a range of activities for each achievement objective. After guided reading sessions with the teacher the students will then be able to select from a range activities related to what they have been learning in class. I hope this will give the students the ability to choose an activity that suits how they learn and will be able to maximise their learning. 

Is it making a difference?

So far in my students data from this year I have seen all of my students move up at least 6 months in their reading age or 1 PM reading level. I started the year with a large chuck of my students reading at 8 years and most of them have now made progress to reading at 9 to 9.5 years. So yes there has been some progress in reading age and ability. My students love the new things that we have been doing in class and are engaged with reading and learning. The one thing that many of my students have loved is recording themselves reading and listening back. They reason they love this is they can see how well they are reading and notice the words that they need to work on or parts of their reading that they need to work on. 

How has it evolved?

It has started out as an idea of adding a small few changes to my reading groups to a site where the students can access reading activities. It has now become a place where teachers can have access to resources that are set to specific reading learning intentions and students can have choice as to how they want to practice that skill. They will still have the guided reading session with the classroom teacher and then will have the ability to practice it the best way for them. 

Where to next?

My site is still under construction and I have not made it live to my class yet as there are still many activities that I need to add. But I do aim to have it up and running by the end of the term. I also need to keep uploading my students reading the stories and articles so that others can listen along as an extra way to have access to the text. I will be continuing to add to this for my learners and will aim to have this rolled out in the classroom by the end of term 3. Then the next hope is to have it rolled out to other teachers to use as a tool in their classrooms! So watch this space!