Today Mrs Salmon, our Reading Recovery Teacher and I had an in depth meeting and look at our current reading wedge graphs and how our resources meet the need of the learners and the teachers. We have noticed that some of our learners are staying for an extended length of time on Magenta books. This is not the pre- reading stage but actually reading every magenta book we have as a resource. As this is a concern we have decided to cull all readers that does not actually lend itself to successful reading, namely readers with one word on a page, readers that do not use punctuation correctly and readers that are not actually telling a story.
Knowing our learners start with a significant lower literacy knowledge that most of New Zealand, we looked at the Learning Progressions with specific focus on Starting school:
To know when to move learners on our criteria was set around CAPS specifically:
Early Reading Behaviours Looking at the pictures, memorising text, reading from left to right and pointing to each word.
These are all early reading behaviours and the steppingstone for comprehension would be the pictures and retelling the story no matter how basic. Pictures play an important role in problem solving especially tricky words and therefore the images MUST relate to the story. We also stated that the learner should be recognising between 10 to 20 words.
Learnings/ Aha moments
Our learners are spending a long time on Magenta books and not roaming around books as pre reading.
Ramblings/ Rumblings
Are we doing our learners a disservice in not moving them along sooner and are we staying in the deficit thinking model?
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