22 May 2018
From the moment they step into the classroom, Braddock Public School students make a commitment to improving their learning, particularly reading, writing and mathematics.
Our students know how to set goals and understand what they need to do to achieve them. They work hard and know they can always improve by putting in the effort, especially when it gets hard.
Our learners know that their brain is like a muscle that needs to work out problems and find solutions, perhaps by asking for help when it gets tricky.
Everybody has set a reading goal and knows that the only way to improve their reading is to read and practise sight words or spelling lists every day. Students are assessed in their reading every five weeks and in Years Kindergarten to Year 3, we expect students to move at least one reading level.
In Years 4 to 5, students work on improving comprehension of what they are reading. This can be by finding information directly from the words the author has used, teachers call this here information.
Students can also look for hidden information, where they have to think a bit more deeply about what the author is trying to say but not directly.
Hidden information requires students to make connections between their own experiences to words or ideas the author uses, and think about what the author means.
Head information is based on more creative ideas from the student and they think about what their feelings and thoughts are about the text.