Based Line Data

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Students

Child 1S, Child 2H, Child 3N, Child 4K, Child 5D, Child 6K, Child 7M, Child 8E

Teaching and Learning - Strategies/Deliberate acts of teaching

What will you do to help teachers/students achieve the outcomes?

Students have had the same teaching for a few years now. Some of these students

have been part of other external groups to support their writing - from STEPS, ALL - reading and writing.

Changing classroom setting/ learning environment, students creating their our SC - having a purpose for their learning and doing things

differently

Action (Teacher Inquiry)

What Strategies are most likely to help my students learn this?

• How will I develop a student's growth mindset within literacy?
• What rich, meaningful tasks and DAT will inspire and engage our targeted 
• priority learners?
• How will, what I have already learned through other programmes improve learning in literacy for students?
• If programmes are integrated into class, won't these take away student agency?

Reflection: (Learning Inquiry)

What happened as a result of the teaching, and what are the implications for future teaching?

Investigate the success of the teaching using a range of formative and summative assessment approaches.

Then analyse and interpret the information to consider their next steps.

Students

Student	Gender	Ethnicity	September 2017 (easTtle)	November 2017 (EOY REPORT)	March 2018 (easTtle)
SE1	Male	South African/ @ home	-	-	1B
KA2	Female	South African	-	At 1	1P
HA3	Male	NZ European	1A	Early 2	1A
NO4	Male	Japanese	2B	Early 2	1A
KO5	Male	NZ European	2A	Early 2	1A
DR6	Male	South African	2P	Early 2	1P
KA7	Male	NZ European	1P	Early 2	2B
EA8	Male	NZ European	2B	Early 2	1A

Areas to develop:
These students haven't made progress in writing or have gone backwards in their learning. Looking at their writing samples, students need support when organising their ideas and how to structure their sentences. They struggle with spelling and how this stops the flow of ideas.

"Punctuation works alongside language structures and patterns to help us communicate effectively. It is another tool that writers use to help their writing achieve its purpose and direct and engage their readers." Jan Eyre and Verena Watson - PAT: Punctuation and Grammar - a new resource to supporting literacy.

Lynne Truss wrote - without punctuation there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.

Students are so hung up on punctuation and spelling that sometimes they are unable to produce a piece of writing.