Week 4 trial!

Reflection:
The boys' confidence seems to be increasing and more engagement as more are participating in discussions of the text.
I will trial using School Journals next week as the length of the e-books and the vocabulary in the audio books at this stage seems to be challenging for the boys so discussions continue for a long time. Also, I'd like to try and vary my resources so that the boys can be exposed to both digital and non-digital texts.
Hypothesis:
I predict that using the School Journals will help the boys put the stories into context and support them to participate more during our guided reading sessions.

Target student intervention 2: Intensive reading mileage and reinforcement!

One of my target students joined my class in Term 2 this year with limited English vocabulary and knowledge. He is able to communicate orally with others, however, reading and writing skills/ knowledge is very minimal. I needed an intervention to help my student to read and write so after my first conference with the child's mum in Term 2, we started practising high frequency words every day at home and I also introduced 'Starfall' (audio book website) to my student as initially he wasn't able to sound out any of the words independently. We started with the 'Learn to read' section and then this term we moved from the 'Learn to read' section to 'I'm reading' section as I wanted my student to feel some success that we are moving forward and making improvements in our reading.
Student is now able to sound out most of the high frequency words without audio or support.
I will continue to monitor closely the students' responses during Reciprocal Reading sessions and will test student again in the last week of the term.

Part one of intervention: Practise with audio book.

Part two of intervention: Practise with teacher.

Part three: Record reading independently using a digital platform.

Where to next after week 3 of trial?

Reciprocal Reading is also called Co-operative Reading.
As explained on TKI ESOL online.
This led me to read Teaching reading approaches and strategies


Hypothesis:
I'm going to try RIQ and Developing high level questions.
My prediction is that these strategies will help my students to become more confident in sharing their ideas and ask questions that develops their understanding, which will in turn improve their ability to make connections and inferences with what they have read.