Today you bank M3 KA1: a substantial Reflective Journal entry on your reading journey so far. You look back across Module 1, Module 2, the summer, and early Module 3. You name at least six distinct pieces across audio, visual, print and digital forms, then briefly say three of them out loud. The written entry is the Key Assignment evidence.
Have your Reading Journey Log open: the running list you started at the back of your Reflective Journal in Lesson 61. If it is thin or you never started it, you will build it up in the next activity before you write.
A reading-journey entry is not a book list. Name real pieces across audio, visual, print and digital forms, then answer five prompts in full sentences: what surprised you, what changed your thinking, what you want more of, what you want less of, and one piece that has stayed with you and why.
| Term | What it means for you | Real example |
|---|---|---|
| Reading journey | Texts you really engaged with from Module 1, Module 2, summer and early Module 3 | A novel, a research site, a summer podcast, a news clip |
| Wide variety | Your six pieces must cross audio, visual, print and digital | Radio, film, magazine, social post |
| Reflection prompt | Each prompt gets a real sentence, not an empty heading | What changed my mind about calm-sounding pages |
Short model (about half your length):
When I started Module 1 I thought reading meant novels. What surprised me was a three-line appointment message where every word had a job. In Module 2 I researched local sports clubs online and changed my mind about calm pages: some were still selling a side. Over the summer I listened to a podcast about leaving home and watched a film of a story I knew; the film cut a scene I had loved on the page. Early in Module 3 I mapped the media I touch in a day. I want more slow audio and less endless scroll. The piece that has stayed with me is that summer podcast: I still hear the pause before the host said she did not go back.
Six named pieces across forms. All five prompts answered. That is the shape. Yours runs longer: 18 to 25 sentences.
Open your Reading Journey Log at the back of your Reflective Journal and bring it up to date: add what you have read, watched or listened to since Lesson 61. If it is thin or missing, list six pieces in it from memory first: title, form, and roughly when you met each one.
Before you write, check the breadth of that list. Rate each line and name the evidence: a real title, clip, site or piece. A rating with nothing behind it does not count.
This is your Portfolio piece and the M3 KA1 evidence. Write Reflective Journal Entry 8, titled My reading journey so far, as one continuous entry: 18 to 25 sentences, at least six distinct pieces across audio, visual, print and digital forms, covering all five prompts in the entry itself.
Finish one strong version in the draft space below (that is your working copy). File that same final version in two places: your Reflective Journal, and your Communication Portfolio as m3_ka1_reading_journey_<your-initials>. KA1 is banked when your teacher initials the portfolio copy against the journal entry.
Take three pieces from the entry you just wrote. Briefly name them and say why one of them stayed with you. Speak from the entry; do not read it out. Say it to a partner while your teacher listens in on a few pairs.
KA1 is the written journal entry. This speaking turn is practice for talking about your own work, not part of the KA1 evidence pack.
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