This is a draft for an assignment in Ensuring Student Success subject.

1. How important is literacy to student success?

2.  Queensland Education describe literacy as the
ability to read, view, write, design, speak and
listen in a way that allows us to communicate
effectively and to make sense of the world.
 Literacy is what allows us to decode text,
pictures, maps, audio, signs etc to be able to
understand the meaning attached to
message.

4.  Dimension 4 is the stage after we acquire the knowledge and
how we then use this knowledge meaningfully to assist in
making informed decisions. By involving students in this process
allows for their own personal growth and the greater the
motivation the higher the proficiency and understanding related
to that knowledge.
 Dimension 4 is broken up into six reasoning processes these are
- Decision Making
- Problem Solving
- Invention
- Experimental Inquiry
- Investigation
- System Analysis
The process which we will look at further is the Investigation
process.

5.  Help students understand the process of
investigation
 Give students a model for the process of
investigation, and create opportunities for
them to practice using the process.
 Help them focus on critical steps and difficult
aspects of the process.
 Provide students with graphic organisers
 Use teacher-structured and student
structured tasks

6.  What value do you place on literacy
concerning education?
 Do you feel that literacy is an important
component for every subject?
 Does literacy assessments help identify areas
of concern?
 Does a literacy assessment reflect literacy
inadequacies across a range of subjects?
 Are there any suggestions as to how you
might improve the system?

10. Concept/Scenario: How important is literacy to student success?
Question 1: What value do you place on literacy concerning education?
Known or Agreed Upon:
Literacy is what our community and social life is based upon.
Literacy is used throughout every subject without it they can not
perform the tasks or improve their own knowledge.

11. Concept/Scenario: How important is literacy to student success?
Question 2: Do you feel that literacy is an important component for
every subject?
Known or Agreed Upon:
Literacy is used in every subject and everyday lives.
Literacy is vital for decoding messages.
Every subject has its own literacy but are linked through common
elements.
Literacy is used throughout every subject without it they can not
perform the tasks or improve their own knowledge.
Literacy is across all the KLA’s

12. Concept/Scenario: How important is literacy to student success?
Question 3: Does literacy assessments help identify areas of concern?
Known or Agreed Upon:
All assessments help to gather information but not all are diagnostic.
Running records and comprehension assessments help to gather
information about the students individual needs.

13. Concept/Scenario: How important is literacy to student success?
Question 4: Does a literacy assessment reflect literacy inadequacies
across a range of subjects?
Known or Agreed Upon:
Can do depending on how they are set up especially through using
comprehension questions or types of written reports.

14. Concept/Scenario: How important is literacy to student success?
Question 5: Are there any suggestions as to how you might improve the
system?
Resolution:
Focus more on literacy within the subject not the knowledge content.
Allocation of time does not always allow for the added extra benefit of
exploring the literacy within each subject.
Literacy circles have helped to identify areas of concern and work
towards goals.

15.  Formative Assessments - is to gather feedback that
can be used by the learning manager and the
students to guide improvements in the ongoing
teaching and learning context
 Summative Assessments - is to measure the level of
success or proficiency that has been obtained at the
end of an instructional unit, by comparing it against
some standard or benchmark.
 Diagnostic Assessment – is a type of formative
assessment used to identify a students level of
competence or establish if there are learning
disabilities.

16. Formative Summative Diagnostic
Observations Performance Task Naplan
Questioning Written Product Running Records
Discussion Oral Product
Think Pair Share Test (Unit)
Peer/Self Assessments

17.  Literature circles
 Word walls
 Reading groups

18.  http://education.qld.gov.au/literacyandnume
racy/pdf/factsheet-l-n.pdf
 Marzano. R.J, (1997). Dimensions of Learning.
Aurora: McREL
 Brady. L, (). Assessment and Reporting.
Frenchs Forest: Pearson Australia
 Winch. G, (2011). Literacy reading, writing &
children’s literature. Melbourne: Oxford
University Press