Narrative Assessment - Reading - 29 August 2016

Learner:  Jessica       Learning Coach:   Megan Croll - LH2          Date:   29 August 2016

Learning Area:  Reading

Learning Observed

Jessica has been learning to recognise more high frequency words from the Magenta reading series.  Today she was reading a book that used the high frequency words ‘we’, ‘like’ and ‘ice-cream’.  Jessica used the pictures in the story to help with decoding unfamiliar words, e.g. snow, rain.   She was able to answer some questions about the story, and we talked about words from the ‘-ill’ word family, e.g. hill, bill, will.

Evidence of learning

Click on this ‘fotobabble’ to hear Jessica read some of the story.

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Jessica is increasing her capabilities to read some sight words with greater independency.  She is using pictures and initial letters to try and decode unfamiliar words (Using Language, Symbols and Text).

Next Learning Steps

Reread this story to a buddy and parent Learn more high frequency words, both at school and home Choose books from the Red or Yellow colourwheel

Narrative Assessment - Maths - 24 August 2016

Learner:  Jessica       Learning Coach:   Megan Croll - LH2         Date:  24 August  2016

Learning Area:  Maths

Learning Observed

The Black Gibbons have been investigating what it means to classify objects.  This is part of the geometry strand in maths, level 1.   The Learners were placed in mixed ability groups of 4-5, then they rotated through three different activities where they were asked to work as a team to discuss the objects and find different ways to classify (group) them.   Jessica worked with her group to first group the objects by colour, then to separate the colours and group them according to their shape.  In their next rotation, Jessica was supported by others in her group to classify some wooden shapes.   They put them into three groups - one group of shapes that were rounded, another group of shapes had point and the third group were classified as cubed shapes.

Evidence of learning

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Jessica worked in a collaborative way by thinking and acting with her team.  She is beginning to share her ideas with the other Learners in her team and listen to their ideas. Jessica demonstrated that she is capable of listening to, and following a set of instructions.   She was required to think about the learning taking place and understand what the other members in her group were doing when they were creating new groups with the materials.  Jessica was able to manage herself by remaining on task and moving to the next rotation when instructed.

Next Learning Steps

Find other objects to classify within LH2 and at home Support another Learner to understand classification Bring another feature into her classifications