Back to School for Level 2...

We are back at school and there has been a shift in our School's PLD focus to Reading. Therefore the direction of my professional Inquiry is changing again. I am proud of the way my team adapted to the challenges of going into lockdown and the resources we produced for the children on our site. I look forward to getting back to ‘business as usual’ with a focus on my Reading Programme.

I have taken on more of our able, high-achieving readers from within the team, but still have a group of mostly Year 3s, stuck at the end of Green. I really feel that with a push from me, they have the potential to progress much closer to the desired 8 years reading age by the end of this year. 

My Inquiry Focus question has become: 

How can I lift student achievement and fluency in Reading, to progress hesitant readers from a Reading Age of 6 years, to 8 years?

In our staff meeting this week, we have been asked to go away and identify what our learners are doing when they come to an unknown word. Here is what I have found.

Name	EOY 2019 Reading Level	Current Instructional Level	Observation of reading strategies
H	9	14	? Haven't had the chance to observe due to absences.
P	11	14	Decoding, breaking words into chunks of sound, quite successfully.
T	10	14	Combination of decoding chunks, echoing others and appealing.
M	7	14	Decoding, breaking words into chunks of sound, quite successfully.
E	10	14	Appeals
K	12	14	Appeals? / Waits for others and echoes.

I have found this process useful, as it is keeping me mindful to particularly work on providing other independent strategies to the children dependent on echoing others or appealing.

I am looking forward to working closely with this group, reading with them on a daily basis as much as I can, to see if we can supercharge their learning!