Term 2 Inquiry Update

 

At this point in the year, I am so proud of the progress that my Teir 2 children are making. It is quite evident that the extra small group time they are receiving in their tier 2 group, as well as the work they are doing in class is making a massive difference in their reading fluency and word recognition. As I prepare for Running Record testing during the next few weeks, I am excited to see the progress of these children and to see what my next steps in teaching might be as we progress through the middle of the year. 

Now that we have concluded our Running Record testing I am very proud of the progress these children have made. After consulting with their tier 2 teachers, I have decided to move them from reading BSLA books to the PM books to better equip them with the comprehension skills and ability to complete learning tasks for their level. 

Moving forward, I would like to have my focus be the group reading at Turquoise/Purple to better equip them to complete work at this level across all subjects and to improve their comprehension strategies when reading more involved texts before the end of the year. I would really like to see these children move to silver by the end of the year so that they are no longer 2+ years behind but rather only one year behind moving up to year 5.

2026 Inquiry

At the end of 2025, I began training as a year 4 teacher in BSLA. As my training comes to an end this term, I am looking at how I can better implement small group teaching using the BSLA readers and teaching processes with my Year 4 Tier 2 students. 

During the first portion of the year, I am going to focus on working with these tier 2 groups through my modeling of target graphemes and how it directly translates into student accuracy during the word-blending phase of book introduction. 

My overall Inquiry Question is: 

How effectively am I using 'Vocabulary Elaboration' and 'Story Grammar' mapping to prepare students for the specific linguistic demands of the new text?

My hope is that through my whole class taumata I can introduce the strategies of vocabulary elaboration and story grammar mapping that will directly fall into completed and successful independent tasks with the children. I do recognise that those in my tier 2 groups will require a little extra assisstance as the year progesses, which is why I will be placing some focus on my small group interactions with them a well.