Narrative Assessment - Writing - 31 March 2016

Learner:  Sanjana               Learning Coach:   Megan Croll             Date:   31 March 2016

Learning Area: Writing

Learning Observed

Our Learning Habitat had recently had a visit from ‘Little Bo Peep’ and her farm animals. Sanjana had an opportunity to visit the ‘farm’ to touch, brush and learn about the different animals.    For our writing assessment, Sanjana was invited to write about her ‘farm’ visit.  We had a group discussion and Sanjana was encouraged to think about all the animals that she saw, and to use her senses to describe what she had seen, smelt, heard and touched.   Sanjana planned her writing with a very detailed picture.    She used a capital letter to start her sentence, spelt a few high frequency words correctly and sounded out the initial letter for the word ‘rabbit’.

Evidence of learning

Sanjana wrote a sentence about the rabbit. She included personal voice and a description about how it felt.

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Sanjana was supported to collaborate with others during the brainstorm when she was thinking about the ‘farm’ visit.   She connected to her personal experience and used this to help form her ideas for writing. Sanjana was able to work by herself to plan for her writing and write a simple sentence (Managing Self).   Sanjana is forming most of her letters correctly and listens to the sounds they make when recording them (Using language, symbols and text).

Next Learning Steps

Include more detail about an idea Use lower case letters correctly Use time effectively, e.g. less time drawing a plan and more time writing about ideas