INQUIRY: Reading Levels and Achievement
This is my first time creating, and engaging in an inquiry focus. As a beginning teacher there is still so much to learn and grasp within the teaching profession and everyday I have the opportunity to view pedagogy in a contemporary lens. Inquiry question How can we support the acceleration of reading levels for children who have made minimal or no progress over the years? I have chosen to focus on supporting my 8-9 year old readers achieve and fill necessary gaps in their reading using the appropriate approach. Specifically, I have chosen to pinpoint the skill of word decoding and making connections from vocabulary to text to support students' reading achievement. Observations My target group are at a 8-9 year old reading age and have made little or no progress over a period of 3 years according to running records. The running records display that this group of students have progressed point five years on average throughout the past 3 years and 1 has stayed t...