Karis Writing Learning Narrative Term 2

Learner:  Karis      Learning Coach: Margaret Patrick       Date: June, 2016

Learning Area:   Writing                                     Narrative Learning story

Learning Observed

The focus for Quick Writes has been sharing opinions and writing arguments to support the learner’s viewpoint. Karis enjoys quick writes and is a very enthusiastic writer. She contributes to the hapu group discussions prior to writing and is keen to share her finished work with others. She is very capable in an audience situation and connects well with them. Karis has made a major decision regarding her writing and has set a higher expectation for the quality of her content and presentation. Handwriting and presentation are significant factors that affects the audience’s ability to read your writing. In the photo below Karis demonstrates her new sloped writing style. Her letter formation, and much more consistent linking and letter size. She is regularly using the school’s agreed format for setting out her Learning book. She has written a reflection about her writing. In it she reports that she feels more confident to show her written work to others. She wants to improve her editing especially correcting her punctuation. Karis wants to use conjunctions and commas more accurately.  She also wants to add more detail including “wow words” to make her sentences more interesting. She is self managing her learning competency of writing symbols and text

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

*consistently set the same expectations for her writing presentation and quality of content whenever she needs to write ie:iExplore, iDevelop and iExperience. *write a persuasive speech and enter the school’s speech competition. *make sure her stories are published in her DRIVE iDevelop folder and added to her Blog.