Reading- Answering 'Where' Questions

Learner: Taylor  Learning Coach: Luisa Maloni  Date: 8th May, 2015

Learning Area: Literacy- Reading

Learning Observed

Taylor read a book called ‘Hiding’ with Aotearoa today. When asked to retell the story- what happened in the story, Taylor tries hard to remember and recite the story word for word. We are encouraging him to retell the story in his own words. Aotearoa scaffolded/supported this by asking him ‘Where’ questions about the story. Taylor was able to demonstrate what he remembered about the story in this way. See Video and transcript below.

Evidence of learning

Taylor is able to answer simple questions about the text. I wonder if he likes to talk about the book he is reading at home?

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Taylor was recently tested at reading level 3 and achieved 100% accuracy (how many words he read correctly), 75% comprehension (understanding) and 46% retell (saying what happened in the story). Taylor demonstrates his Capabilities in recognising High Frequency words and using picture cues to solve unknown or topic words in a book. (Using Language, Symbols and Texts). Taylor shows his developing comprehension skills as he answers simple where questions about a text to support his retell of the story.

Next Learning Steps

Retell a page from a story in his own words , i.e. not recounting word for word. Use a noun/verb/noun sentence structure to retell a page from a story Further develop his capabilities in answering who, what and where questions about a story