Target Audience Review

After the lecture with Janet Read I thought it would be a good idea to try and focus our device onto a smaller age group, rather than children under the age of 11. My research suggests a better age range would be between 7 and 11.

According to the school curriculum, children should reach certain levels at key stages of their development and the SATs are a way to measure this. At the age of 7, a child should be aiming for a level 2 in English, which is the average. At this level the child they use more than one method for reading unfamiliar words, such as phonics, syntacts and contextual strategies. This would make our word scanner ideal for this point in a child's development and would be used to aid these strategies, with the hope of getting the child to the average level of 4 at the age of 11. Importantly, we must not make the child lazy, and ensure that the device still carries out these methods to help the child develop their sound blending when reading.

The diagram below shows the levels that children are expected to achieve in their SATs at 7, 11 and 14 years old (click to enlarge):



Details about the levels can be found at the National Curriculum in Action website here.

The diagram and supporting information was gathered from the Woodlands Junior School website