Portfolio Standards 4 and 5

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.