Writing with Fernanda

Writing Narrative Assessment

Learner: Fernanda                Learning Coach: Talia Morgan        Date: 19th August 2016

Learning Area: iDevelop - Writing

Learning Observed

Fernanda was give the topic of her ‘family’ and was asked to tell the LC anything and everything about her family, who was in it and whatever they wanted to tell us about their family because they are the ones who know their families, the LC doesn’t. Fernanda wrote a story about her family, telling us about how much she loves them and they love her.

Evidence of learning

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Fernanda is developing her Capabilities in writing. She was able to independently write her own story (Managing Self). Fernanda wrote about her family, using the who and what, telling us all about how they care for and look after her (Using Language, Symbols and Text). Fernanda tried to sound out difficult and unfamiliar words on her own and recorded the sounds in the order she could hear them in and wrote most high frequency words correctly (Thinking).

Next Learning Steps

Use capital letters and full stops correctly. Forming letters on the line and watching size of letters. Write the date at the beginning of your story. Share learning with home.

Narrative Assessment - Writing - 16 March 2016

Learner:  Fernanda            Learning Coach:   Megan Croll             Date:   16 March 2016

Learning Area:  Writing

Learning Observed

Fernanda’s writing group were learning to writing recounts about events that had happened in the past.   They were think about what had happened over the previous weekend, then share their idea with a partner.   Some Learners then had an opportunity to share with the whole group and we quickly brainstormed some ideas that we might be using.   Alphabet cards and essential sight word cards are available for the Learners to use during their writing   Fernanda chose to not draw a picture as part of her brainstorming as she just wanted to write about her idea.

Evidence of learning

Fernanda was able to write in the past tense and think about the initial letter sounds when trying to write unfamiliar words.   She shared an idea and included extra detail.

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Fernanda collaborated with others during the brainstorm.   She connected with a personal experience and used this to help form her ideas for writing. She was able to work by herself to sound out the main letter sounds she could hear in the  word ‘park’ (Managing Self).  Fernanda is forming most of her letters correctly and listens to the sounds they make when recording them (Using language, symbols and text).  She was able to Think of her own idea and write about it.

Next Learning Steps

Use a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence Use a full stop at the end of a sentence Lowercase ‘p’ when a capital is not needed

Learner: Fernanda Espinoza Diaz     Learning Coach: Miriam Kamsteeg      Date: 4 March 2015

Learning Area: Literacy - Writing

Learning Observed

Fernanda did not know what to write about today. I said that she could write about the tadpoles if she liked. She went away and drew her picture and wrote her name. She came and told me that she wanted to write “Everyone is watching the tadpoles”. I said “Everyone, e, e, e. Can you find the picture on the table tent that starts with the sound “e”?” She could not so we started naming all the pictures. When we came to “egg”. I stopped her and said “e, e, egg. Is that the same as everyone?” She said it was and wrote down “e”. We repeated the same process for “is”. With “watching” I said that there was a clue in the word “watching, watch”. She pointed to the “watch” picture. I then showed her the word “the” on the table tent card which she copied down, but copied a backwards “h”. Then the last word “tadpoles”. She said, “t! But what does it look like?” I said “T.V” and she pointed to the “T.V” picture and wrote down “t”. I then asked her what did she need to put at the end of her story and she put down a full stop.

Evidence of learning

I noticed she recorded her n, a, d and h backwards. I wonder if she has noticed that they are only written one way?

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Fernanda scored 8/54 on the Letter Identification Assessment and 3 years 6 months on the Oral Language Assessment. She was able, once given an idea, to start her picture and record her name by herself (Managing Self). Fernanda is developing her Capabilities in learning what letter can be used to record different sounds (Using Language, Symbols and Text). She showed she was Curious about her learning and what sounds she needed to use.

Next Learning Steps

Specific teaching regarding the way the letters go. Specific teaching regarding which letters can be used for which sounds. Complete a Sound to Letter Assessment - Does Fernanda know more sounds than letters?