As part of the class work on minibeasts Molly used several books to find out information. The video evidence shows her reading Are you a Ladybird? by Judy Allen with her teacher. She then uses some of this information to write about ladybirds and read this to others in the class. Her teacher comments on Molly's work in the unit as a whole, pointing out her tendency to rely on memory and on cues from illustrations to compensate for uncertainties in decoding words.
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Assessment commentary
- In the context of reading continuous text, Molly struggles with reading some high frequency words and forgets to use phonic strategies to decode unfamiliar words (AF1 BL1).
- The video evidence shows Molly's tendency to rely on the pictures rather than decoding the text. She applies her general knowledge about families to enable her to recall items of interest, for example, that when they are 'babies', they do not look like ladybirds. (AF2 L1 b1 and b2; AF3 L1 b2).
- The video evidence also shows Molly reading her writing aloud, supported by prompts from her teacher. Once again, it is evident that she is hesitant in tackling a number of apparently familiar words (AF1 BL1).
