Reading Practice Intensive, Day 2: Know Your Reader

Hi Everyone, 

I have really enjoyed Day 2 of the RPI. It has been so good to dive deeper and get to know our own readers better. It has been really good to get to do this by looking at our own data.

I enjoyed hearing a little more about the Kaupapa and the pedagogy behind what we are doing. I felt that the information about literacy cycles was very valuable, bringing it back to the process and intention behind our planning. I really liked the connection between the shared aspect and motivation to complete work. If we are creating opportunities for them to show learning in exciting ways that they want to share they are going to have more motivation to complete the task. This idea of students creating podcasts was really cool. 

It was interesting to see how I can utilise the Teacher workbook. It seems like a great place to keep track of the data and monitor groups. It will hopefully make the next steps clearer and also help to track what we are doing over the year. It does seem quite overwhelming at the moment as there is a lot of data to add in there which will be quite time-consuming, but I think it will be worth it once it is all in there.

I really liked getting some tips to be able to utilise my PAT results better.

It hard hard with our reading classes being different from our homeroom classes as the data is not in sets so we will have to look across classes for individuals. Adding the information to the reading tracker sheet will hopefully help with this though. The connection from the PAT to ARBs is such a cool function to include activities connected to the skills. It is great to have activities that so clearly relate to the skills we are focusing on teaching. 

Where to next:

-look deeper into finding out the why behind why students aren't choosing to read in their own time. What can we do to change this?

-use the reading challenge, and add in some other tasks such as creating a podcast to review the book.

-look at the PAT data to find out the next steps for my groups

-Use some ARB activities in my teaching

-look at how to incorporate the taskboard with our current slide format. We use this team-wide and the format has been working well for us and the students 

Reading Survey Data Analysis

Kia Ora Reader, 

Here is the data from my reading classes' student survey. 

I found it really interesting that the student's attitudes towards reading and their view of themselves as a reader was overall quite positive, they understood that reading helps them but they don't tend to read in their own time for enjoyment, though they did mostly enjoy reading for enjoyment. It will be interesting to did deeper with them to find out what the barriers are to reading and figuring out ways increase their motivation to read for enjoyement.