Learner: Tavleen Kaur          Learning Coach: Miriam Kamsteeg      Date: 26 Feb 2015

Learning Area: Literacy - Reading

Learning Observed

Tavleen came to read me “My House”. She was able to open the book and hold it the correct way. Tavleen looked at me to prompt her for the words on the page. I said “My bike” and pointed to the bike. We turned the page. She again looked for a prompt. I said “My skateboard” and pointed to the picture. We turned the page. Tavleen then said “My house”. She was able to read the next pages, until we came to the last page with “my slide”. She said “my cat, my dog”. I pointed to the slide and slid my finger along it. She asked my to tell her what it was. “My slide”, I said.

Evidence of learning

Tavleen was able to use the repeated pattern in the book at the picture cues to read the story. I wonder if she will continue to use picture cues in other stories?

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Tavleen started school this year and is still developing print recognition. She scored 13/54 on the Letter Identification assessment and 3 years 1 month on the Oral Language assessment. Tavleen showed she was capable by using the pattern and pictures of the story to enable her to read it. She was able to read some of the words (Using Language, Symbols and Texts). Tavleen was able to use her prior knowledge of the text to guess the words on the final page (Thinking).

Next Learning Steps

Specific teaching on using picture cues in reading a story Learn basic sight words Specific teaching on letter recognition.