Kereru++&+Pukeko

__Teacher Action Inquiry Plan__ __Teacher/Team:__ Pukeko And Kereru Learning Spaces. **The Concern: Literal and Inferential Comprehension Questions in Reading** **I wish to investigate**: Ways to motivate and strengthen comprehension skills within Reading. Children are competent readers, and can talk about the text on a basic level, but are having difficulty in answering literal and inferential questions using references from the text. **What is happening at present?** Children are competent readers, and can talk about the text on a basic level, but are having difficulty in answering literal and inferential questions using references from the text. **What does the literature say?** "Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different." — Steven Pinker "My child reads but she doesn't seem to understand what she reads. What can I do?" When teaching a young reader the basics, it's easy to forget that "learning to read" is not the same as "reading comprehension." By "learning to read", most parents mean that their child is decoding words. "Reading comprehension" requires understanding, which comes after learning how to interact with the text. (Time4Learning) **What will I do?** Introduce Listening Posts. Interactive Books Into the Book WallWisher (children to answer comp questions – put onto projector and sift and sort – expand on answer (add detail)   Animations (inferential)    **What help do I need?**    Technical – Setting up projector (barrier will be light)    Equipment- access to: Projectors / Listening Posts / Interactive Books / Laptops    Inquiry process – More ICT comprehension tools. (what else is available)    **Timeline:**     Term 1: Completed our Inquiry Action Plan 2011.     Term 2: Introduce Listening Posts / Wallwisher (answering comp questions and analyse)    Term 3: Introduce Interactive Books / Into the Book.    Term 4: I can Animate – Children create a silent Animation. Share with class and peers to infer what is happening.