The purpose of my action research project is to find
effective researched based activities for 1st grade that will
increase fluency and comprehension and determine if implementing these
activities improve student performance on the end of the year (EOY) Texas
Primary Reading Inventory (TPRI). Being
that we have only been in school for 5 weeks and this project will span the
entire school year, I have not gotten into the meat of the project. I have however, kept on schedule as per my
action planning template. To start off
the project, I took the TPRI scores from the EOY Kinder students and determined
the percentage that were still developing on listening comprehension. I compiled a list of these students noting
which teacher they will have for 1st grade. We used this information as a beginning of
the year guide to place the students in tutorials and small group reading. During the 1st week of school I
was also able to meet with the first grade teachers to explain my research
inquiry. They were all very receptive to
the project and have been very accommodating.
At this point we have just finished administering the beginning of the
year TPRI and I am gathering the data from the teachers to begin analyzing the
scores. This week I will get the scores
analyzed and once I have it all done I will meet with the teachers again and we
will pick 3 students from each class that I will chart and follow throughout
the year. Outside of school, I have been
researching instructional activities that we will begin implementing by the
middle of October. In the next 2 weeks I
will work with the teachers to model the activities that we will be implementing
and the teachers will begin using the activities in their literacy stations as
well as small group reading.