Cindy+Blackwell

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St. Augustine B.Ed. Blended Learning ID#:811005414 Topic: Language Arts- Creative Writing The students’ appear to have attention deficiency or lack of focus. They will not adhere to simple, short or long instruction tasks and frequently direct instructions have to utter repeatedly. They totally distort information, abandon class rules/ etiquette, reading and writing of expository pieces and recollections of details are weak. This is evident in their comprehension and vocabulary usage where the students fail to express orally and written what they hear and read. Statistically data reveals the following: Secondary Assessment Entrance 2009- 35% of 20 students sitting the examination. 2010- 17% of 23 students sitting the examination. 2011- 53.8% of 39 students sitting the examination National Test at the Standard level further indicate that only 3% of students perform at a level 4(exceed required standard), 75% meets required standard, 20% failed to meet required standard.
 * The University of the West Indies

Their lack of discipline to forego rules and assign tasks are expressive evident of the students incompetence of listening skill where they seems to have a short attention span. The problems appear to be stream from pupils home-style where instructions given from senior/s in the household are not firmed and forego by the parents or guardian. Most of the students comes from single parent families where parents lack time management and poor reinforcement of punishments therefore inadequate time to developed their children overall behavior and listening skills. Thus, contributing to major problem of poor listening skills by disruptive behavior, unable to follow instructions and lack of attention during lesson concepts causing poor academic grades etc. To investigate reasons affecting listening skills in the school setting environment which will be conducted or aim at Standard Four Pupils within the age range of ten to thirteen years. It is targeted to this group of students in order to develop proper intervention specific to the area of listening which is the key factor in promoting better academic grade in composition. This also aims at having the students to be able to think critically, logically and explore their imaginations and perceptions of things. This can bring classroom order and forego for informal and formal instructions thereby will increase their composition of creative writing. ** Objectives: ** ** Pupils will ** ** General Goal: ** ** Specific Goal ** :
 * 1) To improve children listening skills.
 * 2) Explore the strengths and weaknesses of the current curriculum in Creative Writing.
 * 3) Improve the academic achievement in Creative Writing.
 * 1) Using reading strategies students will examine vocabulary and interpret what is being asked of them by identifying key words, contextual clues and explore prior knowledge.
 * 2) Sample testing of previous National Tests to help evaluate their strength and weaknesses in writing i.e. analyzing the students’ sentence structure composition, the simplicity of their writing, formation of ideas, usage of appropriate diction and building of their word bank.
 * 3) Using provided resources and modeling Matrix Theory ( corner, classroom setting, interactive activities –motivation of competition etc.) integrates with the component of spelling ,sight words, connectivity to words and their meaning inorder to improve writing.



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