1. Analyze test data at your PDS site.What percent of students are achieving Mastery or above in any content area?
-At Jayenne Elementary school 32% of the students achieve mastery or above in reading. Mastery or above is achieved by 56% of the students in math, 41% achieve mastery or above in science, and 305 achieve mastery or above in social studies. I think that increasing reading scores will help in all other subjects.
2. Provide a brief explanation of the learning need.
- I think that at Jayenne Elementary they need to focus on their reading comprehension. If the students increase their reading comprehension they will be able to increase their test scores in other subjects as well.
3. Find an Instructional Intervention that you might use to address the learning need.
- I chose SQ3R as an instructional intervention that I would use to improve reading comprehension. SQ3R stands for survey, question, read, recite, review.
4. Write down three pieces of evidence that the strategy works.
- After I began to research this strategy I found that there is no actual research to support it. However, there are several opinions that indicate that this strategy does in fact work.
Research Based Strategies
5. What is your Question?
- My question is can using the SQ3R strategy improve students reading comprehension?
6. What kind of assessment you will use to help you collect data.
- The type of assessment that I would use to help collect data using this strategy is writing activities. The students could write reflections on the the stories they implemented the stragey on to check their comprehension. The stories could be graded with a rubric. Another way that students could be assessed is by answering questions on a story made by the teacher to check their comprehension.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Action Research
1. What is the title of the project?
-What happens to third graders' writing when they participate in a reading and letter writing program?
2. What is the problem?
-The problem is third grade writers struggle with language development and all components of letter writing; dialogue, organization, sentence structure, flow, text-connections, vocabulary, mechanics, support from the reading, and making references about themselves.
3. Describe the instructional intervention.
-The instructional intervention is the implemention of the penpal letter writting program.
4. What kind of strategy is the instructional intervention?
- Simulation and games is the instructional intervention used for this. The students simulated writing letters to their penpal to learn how to write a professional letter.
5. What evidence is presented that the strategy will work?
-Providing students the opportunity to visualize and model improves their chances for understanding. Simulations enhance this potential by making modeling dynamic. Simulations and games provide powerful new opportunities for learning.
Simulations allow learners the opportunity to model, explore, and try out a variety of strategies.
6. How will data be collected to determine if the strategy will work?
- Collecting letters at random across the implemention of the penpal letter writting program. More than one letter was collected per student and it was graded with a rubric.
7. How was the data analyzed?
- Comments from book discussions and a scoring rubric were used to analyze data. The rubric was designed specifically for this pen pal letter writing research, and a rubric guide. The data was collected over a period of four months and was measured against the tool--letter-writing rubric.
8. What were the results?
- The students letters and their written improved with each letter written to their penpal. The occurence of errors decreased. However many of them still struggled with vocabulary and mechanics.
-What happens to third graders' writing when they participate in a reading and letter writing program?
2. What is the problem?
-The problem is third grade writers struggle with language development and all components of letter writing; dialogue, organization, sentence structure, flow, text-connections, vocabulary, mechanics, support from the reading, and making references about themselves.
3. Describe the instructional intervention.
-The instructional intervention is the implemention of the penpal letter writting program.
4. What kind of strategy is the instructional intervention?
- Simulation and games is the instructional intervention used for this. The students simulated writing letters to their penpal to learn how to write a professional letter.
5. What evidence is presented that the strategy will work?
-Providing students the opportunity to visualize and model improves their chances for understanding. Simulations enhance this potential by making modeling dynamic. Simulations and games provide powerful new opportunities for learning.
Simulations allow learners the opportunity to model, explore, and try out a variety of strategies.
6. How will data be collected to determine if the strategy will work?
- Collecting letters at random across the implemention of the penpal letter writting program. More than one letter was collected per student and it was graded with a rubric.
7. How was the data analyzed?
- Comments from book discussions and a scoring rubric were used to analyze data. The rubric was designed specifically for this pen pal letter writing research, and a rubric guide. The data was collected over a period of four months and was measured against the tool--letter-writing rubric.
8. What were the results?
- The students letters and their written improved with each letter written to their penpal. The occurence of errors decreased. However many of them still struggled with vocabulary and mechanics.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Task Sheet and Roles
The roles I have set for my webquest are a researcher and a recorder. Then both students work together to make the PowerPoint and present it. Click here to view my task sheet.
Monday, April 18, 2011
PBL - TechStep Lesson Plans
Student Product
After completing my webquest, the students will have completed a PowerPoint presentation on a field trip to another country that they would taken another class to. Click here to view a copy of what the students final product might look like.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Formative Assessment
Click here to view my formative assessment, which is a mind map. Students will write or draw anything that comes to their mind when asked the question: What is culture?
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