Did we make enough progress

Reading ability - Feb

Student	A	B	C	D	E
Reading level	2	2	2	2	2
Reading age	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0
Chronological age	5.04	5.03	5.04	5.04	5.04
Errors	13	25	10	14	40
Self corrections	0	0	0	0	0
Accuracy    %	75	52	81	73	18
Comprehension of text	3/4	2/4	2/4	1/4	0/4

Reading ability - Nov

Student	A	B	C	D	E
Reading level	10/12	10/12	7/9	10/12	7/9
Reading age	5.9	5.9	5.6	5.9	5.6
Chronological age	6.0	5.11	6.0	6.0	6.0
Errors	5	15	2	14	23
Self corrections	0	0	0	0	0
Accuracy    %	96	89	99	90	83
Comprehension of text	5/5	5/5	5/5	5/5	3/5

What they are reading this week - should be 12/13/14 at end of year 1

I feel this is due to setting up the system of 3 levels per week both with teacher and on sunshine classics and everyday checking sunshine classics and working on difficult areas with the group.

Writing ability - Feb

Student	A	B	C	D	E
e-asttle	below	below	Well below	below	below

Writing ability - Nov

Student	A	B	C	D	E
e-asttle	at	at	at	below	at

My students really enjoy writing now. They know the system we use and the Yolanda cards and the scrap piece of paper have been amazing.

Verbal communication

Using the flying fives room, the all important microphone pen, and the questioning cards - tell me more… combined have grown my students confidence to share their work and ideas verbally in pairs/ groups and whole class.

What would I do the same:

• Yolanda Phonics/word card
• scrap paper
• writing every day - modelled
• 5 texts per day - as whole class
• sharing circle every day
• Begin year in Room 10 at least 1 session per week
• 3 levels of reading per week
• Sunshine classics

What would I change:

• Provide updates to the students more frequently - as graphs
• Provide the marking matrix for e-asttle
• Gold medals each day for reading/writing
• Split the writing modelling sessions sooner
• Share a sunshine classics book each week as a whole class