Where to next - The Journey After EasTtle

Where to next - The Journey ...

Above - results from the beginning of my Inquiry

September 2018  - (easTtle - recount post)

SE1 - 1A

KA2 - 1A

HA3- 2A

NO4 - N/A

DR5 - 2P

KA7 - 2A

EA8 - 3B

Interesting looking at these results. This was a challenging recount and I don't think it showed their best writing. Trying to accelerate these students through a range of different activities was a great way to excite the students. Students made improvements through incidental and writing sessions throughout class time but when it came to a 'test' and a given topic students became stuck and were unable to write. 

Most of these students spent the first 10 mins looking around the room trying to work out what other students were doing. Ideas didn't flow and the topic challenged them. 'Write on a special time that you spent with family or friends.' If they would given free choice - would this have better results? As Murray Gadd states, "students wrote because they had something to say (which they had decided on) and the text type to be utilized emerged from the topic rather than the other way around.."