Inquiry Update Term 4 2018
Improving Reading Comprehension through focus of Language Acquisition.
ESOL Principles
- Know your learners
- Balance of receptive and productive language
Activities - Speaking frames & information transfer
Term 4 - Getting them ‘test ready’
- How to tackle multi-choice questions (process of elimination)
- Looking at pictures and surrounding text for clues to unknown words
Activities - Need to start with teacher @ start of week - hand over to support worker
Need help reading task - breaking down tasks. First do this, tick, then look what next
Tasks - similar to test structure - STAR, vocab, italics, author's view...
Data:
18 students reading under reading age of 9 years old - 10 made shifts in May RR 0.5
