Individual Learning Plan

School: Nagle College, Bairnsdale.

Student: Yanfei Zhu.
ESL Assistant: Rachel Kennedy
Review Date:
Level: Year 10

Long Term Goals: (Twelve-month goals, with a review after six months)
To broaden her reading and writing skills repertoire so she can continue to develop
meaning and create ideas from and with texts.
To consolidate and extend her oral language skills to enable her to further voice her
opinions and actively contribute to class discussions.
Reading frequently to help build her vocabulary and read with fluency.

Goals Entry Skills Outcome Target

English: Speaking and
Listening, Towards Level 2.3
Focus:
- attempts to use her growing
repertoire of language in
classroom situations to express
ideas in relation to subject matter
- She has begun attempts to vary
the modality of utterances
appropriate to context (e.g.
would/could/can).
- She is beginning to use a
diversified range of vocabulary to
convey the same idea (e.g. pretty,
nice, beautiful).
- She will attempt to use
increasingly complex grammatical
features and a basic range of
connectives to show relationships
between ideas
- Be able demonstrate some
understanding of the structure and
features of extended texts, by
using appropriate stress,
intonation and pausing, eye
contact, and modelled introductory
and concluding sentences.
- use some standard expressions
to express views and attitudes

Example Strategies:

Goals Entry Skills Outcome Target

English: Reading, Towards - Yanfei can read and
comprehend a range of
Level 3.1 short, familiar fictional
Focus: and factual ESL texts
and, when well-
supported, some
unfamiliar texts
- She can extract some
simple specific
information and the main
ideas from factual texts
- She can read-on and
consider the context
when deducing the
meaning of unknown
words
- Yanfei will be able to read
longer and a variety of
different genres with little
assistance.
- Develop the confidence
to attempt a wide range
of texts
- Use a range of strategies
including scanning and
skimming rather than
reliance on predication
and translation tools.
- Yanfei will be able to form
their own responses to
the higher order meaning
of texts.
Goals Entry Skills Outcome Target
English: Writing, Towards - Yanfei can write with a
degree of autonomy for a
Level 3.1 range of everyday
Focus: classroom and personal
purposes, such as
describing, explaining
and recounting
- She can independently
write some basic texts
and experiment with
presenting their own
ideas
- Yanfeis texts show
varying grammatical
accuracy.
- She incorporates subject
specific vocabulary and
uses taught grammatical
features to achieve
desired effects.
- Attempt a wide range of
different text types
appropriate to the
purpose and audience.
- Use general punctuation
conventions correctly
- Show a growing
awareness of social and
cultural sensibilities in
word choice.
- Take on board teacher
feedback in regards to
paragraphs and writing in
general.