Personal Reading at home during the August lockdown.

During the August lockdown (2 weeks). I surveyed my students on their personal reading at home. From what I gathered from their response, I see a change in their reading. It is a satisfying response. I can see that they read more and they listened to a story from Stroyline Online. It is pleasing to see the improvement. However, this time round of lockdown, I was more organised with the learning and I had been vigilant on tracking the reading log. 

 

BOOK CLUB TRACKING

 How has the Covid-19 period impacted the learners in your focus group? Will you need to make any changes to your Inquiry?

Reflection on this week CoL meeting, and now completed another week of lockdown and learning from home, I looked at my inquiry with joy. The reason being in this state, is the opportunity that Covid has provided for me as a teacher to actually get into my learners' home environment and to see what opportunity that my learners have to continue reading for pleasure from home.

I have the opportunity to speak with most parents of the year 8 students and their siblings whom my inquiry is focus on.

I am confirmed that the learners are very versatile. I am amazed with their ability to read and try to focus when there is noise and distraction around them. When talking with parents they expressed appreciation of my role as a teacher but the support for their children is different. Parents forget that their children need SPACE AND TIME. I am amazed at how the students try to cope with their surroundings.

On the other hand, tracking the personal reading from home is different. I still use the reading log as the first point of call to see what they read and to read their reflections.

Book Review and Posting/Sharing on their blog is another strategy for tracking their reading.

EXAMPLE OF ONE POST

Tracking

 

It pleases me to see the effort of this boy who is an emigrant. He responded well to praises and is very determined to do well.  However, I tried different ways of getting my learners to share what they read. 

Tracking - Some of the book review of the Year 8 boys.

Week 3 Term 

Tracking boys reading, enable me to get to know what the boys in my learning space like to read. It provides opportunity for myself to understand their needs in term of the reading materials that is available for them. I need to ensure I have books with similar or related topic for them. 

Tracking Learners' Reading

Reading Summary is one way of tracking my learners' reading. I follow their  summary to gauge if they enjoy what they read and show understanding.