Jasmine's Clarifying Vocab Learning Story

Learner:  Jasmine Sok     Learning Coach: Bex Remington           Date: 13 March 2015

Learning Area: Reading - Clarifying Vocab

Learning Observed

Jasmine’s literacy group has been working on how to clarify meaning and vocabulary when we are reading.  The group discussed that is is sometimes hard to understand a story if we come across words we haven’t seen before so we needed to come up with how we would find out what words mean.  Jasmine said that she would usually check with a dictionary so I challenged her to think about other strategies if a dictionary wasn’t available.  As a group they came up with 3 different ways.  I then gave them a story to read about a school setting up a robotics challenge.  Jasmine was interested in the story but while reading came across words that she wasn’t sure of.  She wrote these words into a shared google slide and using the strategies discussed found out what the words meant.

Evidence of learning

This video is of Jasmine explaining the task and the strategies she will be using to clarify the meaning of words she wasn’t sure of:

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Jasmine is developing her capability in reading and is growing in confidence.  She was able to contribute and participate in the group discussion and was also able to manage herself in the independent follow up task.

Next Learning Steps

Use the strategies for clarifying meaning during her own personal reading time to help her understand and enjoy her reading more Increase her word vocabulary by reading increasingly harder texts which will expose her to new and interesting vocabulary Begin using her new vocabulary in her writing