Learner: Jona Joel Learning Coach: Luisa Maloni Date: 24th April, 2015
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Learning Area: iDevelop: Literacy- Reading
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Learning Observed
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One of Jona’s reading goals in to answer simple inference questions. Today Jona was reading a story called ‘A Long Time Ago’. It showed a family living in the Stone Age using an axe made from rock tied to a stick. I asked him if axes from the Stone Age or axes of today would be better. Jona said that axes from today would be better because the Stone Age axe would break if you hit it too hard.
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Evidence of learning
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Jona can talk about a non-fiction story and make inferences. I wonder if he likes to talk about the story at home?
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Key Competencies/Vision Principles
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Jona demonstrates his Capabilities in making sense of text by Connecting to his prior knowledge- what he already knows about axes (Using Language, Symbols and Texts). He is able to make inferences about a story- not having to directly read it in the text to figure it out. Jona was tested for his Reading level in March and achieved 90% Accuracy (how many words he read correctly), 70% Comprehension(Understanding) and 63% Retelling (saying what happened in the story) at level 12. He has gone up 2 levels since November 2014.
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Next Learning Steps
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Thursday, April 30, 2015
Reading
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Learner: Jona Learning Coach: Abby Morgan Date: 16 February 2015
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Learning Area: Math
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Learning Observed
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Our Math focus was about learning and following directions - forwards, backwards, left and right. To help develop these we played a game of direction freeze! In this activity the learners had to move as directed by the leader. To ensure inclusivity and develop our ability we included the use of New Zealand Sign Language. Jona was able to follow the directions and then volunteered to be our leader. He incorporated both New Zealand Sign Language and Vocal directions.
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Evidence of learning
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Click the link above to watch the YouTube video of Jona using New Zealand Sign Language to direct the game of ‘Direction Freeze’!
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Key Competencies/Vision Principles
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Jona was developing his confidence to interact with others by applying the Key Competency of relating to others. During this time Jona was using both his voice and his ability to use Sign Language. He was also applying the school vision principles of being connected by begin to develop important relationships with others in our Habitat.
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Next Learning Steps
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Sunday, March 8, 2015
Learner: Jona Joel Learning Coach: Luisa Maloni Date: 6th March, 2015
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Learning Area: Literacy- Reading
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Learning Observed
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Jona read the yellow book ‘All Clean’. I observed him using picture cues to help solve unknown words and was able to identify the first letter of a word to sound it out when prompted. Jona enjoys reading to an adult and likes to discuss the pictures throughout the story. At the end I asked him what happened in the story. He was able to retell the story including an approximation of the name of the main character (Marion: Married) and other characters and simply described the action, organising into ‘parts’ e.g. ‘The first part Marion was cleaning the windows and the second part she was...cleaning the floor.’ He used language from the text as well as his own language e.g. ‘The parrot was all messy’
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Evidence of learning
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Key Competencies/Vision Principles
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Jona demonstrates his capabilities in Using Language, Symbols and text as he shares his understandings of a story he has read. In the McCarthy and Kirk Assessment of Oral Language he scored 2 years and 10 months and he scored 52/54 for letter identification. In organising his thoughts about the book he is building thinking competencies as well as drawing from his own experiences and oral language/sign language skills.
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Next Learning Steps
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