Building Sentences!

Learner:  Nima Koleini  Learning Coach: Luisa Maloni          Date:18th February, 2015

Learning Area: Literacy- Writing

Learning Observed

Nima approached me to say he had finished his activity. I asked him if he would like a challenge and he accepted. I said “Let’s build a sentence!” I gave him a boring sentence and asked him if he could add a word to make it more exciting. Each time he came back to me I rewrote the sentence with a place for a new word. The sentence started as ‘I saw a dog’ and finished as ‘I observed an exciting, dangerous dog who was digging for a big bone.’ At one point I asked him to think of another word for ‘saw’. He wasn’t sure so I showed him an online thesaurus and he chose the word ‘observed’. Nima was proud of the sentence he built.

Evidence of learning

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Nima started this year at Ormiston Primary as a year 2. On the McCarthy and Kirk Assessment of Oral Language he scored 5 years and 3 month demonstrating a grasp of language as a basis for literacy. For letter ID he scored 53/54. Nima shows confident capability in Using Language, symbols and text and is building strategies to extend his writing skills e.g. using an online thesaurus.

Next Learning Steps

Use at least one ‘wow’ word in his writing each day during the writing session or as part of the editing process Use an online or book thesaurus independently to help with this process