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** __ PART A: Engagment with an early years literacy learner __ ** ** 2a). Reflect on the child's literal, interpretative and inferential comprehensive questions to determine their understanding of the text. **
 * The early year’s child that I interviewed for this task was able to easily answer the literal and interpretative questions that I asked. Her responses to the literal questions showed me that she had understood and taken meaning from the text. It was evident that she had understood the text as she answered the literal questions quickly, easily and confidently. It was also evident that the child I interviewed had a good understanding of the text as she was easily able to provide answers and insights into the interpretative questions that I posed. Little prompting was required in order for her to confidently and correctly answer the interpretative questions. Whilst the child I interviewed was comfortable in answering the literal and interpretative questions, the inferential questions posed a bit more of a challenge as they required her to engage with higher-order thinking skills such as creativity and reasoning. I believe that she found it hard to comprehend that not all answers have to be categorised as right or wrong. My child’s response to the question; do you think that the big black bear is good or bad and why is just one example of this. Whilst the child I interviewed could state that she didn’t think the bear was either good or bad, but somehow “in the middle”, she had trouble justifying her answer. Even when prompts were used, my child still had difficulty convincingly explaining or elaborating on her answer. ||




 * ~ The Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) have released a 'Statement of learning' for English. This provides teachers will useful information about the outcomes that they should be working towards: [] ||

