The students enjoy telling stories. Kelly leveraged on this interest when she designed the writing task. She also made links to students’ prior experiences of moving to a new place throughout the learning.
Kelly works to develop strong relationships with her students by:
- setting high expectations
- providing precise feedback and feed-forward
- using an integrated approach to make connections across learning situations
- encouraging collaborative teaching and learning
- making learning fun.
Kelly used recent assessment information to guide her when she designed the writing task. She noticed that the students:
- weren’t transferring the detail they use in oral language to their writing
- needed to make more precise language choices in their written language
- did not demonstrate understanding of the use of complex punctuation.