in brief, for this I have put about a spelling test carried out in my class, one child was visibly upset about their performance but as it was a test I simply watched over her to make sure she didn't get too distressed. once the test was over, I took her to one side and asked why she was so upset, she admitted she hadn't practiced the spellings as she had been told to for homework and as a result she didn't know many of her 100 high frequency words. I thanked her for her honesty and said that I would mark her test during break and we could go through the words that she had got wrong, I wrote down which ones she needed to practice and then went over her previous test to see if there was any correlation. I could see that many of the ones she had gotten wrong were actually wrong on both tests so she had in fact not improved since her last test. we sat and spoke about why I felt she needed to practice and that if she did, it would help her obtain better results in her next test. she said she would practice at home. I offered to help her by doing smaller tests of maybe 5 words each week in preparation of the larger test and she said she would appreciate that help. so I then began setting her 5 words on a Friday afternoon to practice ready for the mini test the following Friday. this enabled her to not feel daunted by having to learn so many words in one go and also showed her that she can improve with a little effort.
hope this helps, hopefully you will be able to relate something similar in your setting to write about, xx
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