3351 Review of Students Action Research Proposal

1.  What is the problem?
Kindergarten students where having trouble recognizing rhyme and word families in text.

2. What is the rational for the project?

Exposure to rhyme and word families enables students to decode new and difficult words in text.

3. What strategy will be use to address the problem?

They will be playing rhyme games.

4. What is the question?

How can I use a variety of rhyming games to help my students recognize rhyme and word families in text? They also had a supporting question of  "how can I use a variety of rhyming games to help students recognize rhyme and word families in text?"

5. What evidence is presented that the strategy will work?

The evidence used was that "Research shows that implementing a range of rhyming games can help students improve their recognition of rhyme and word families( Allen 1988.) Reinforcement of patterns of rhyme through rhyming games helps students build on the concept of rhyme and word families( Bradley & Bryant 1983).

6. How will data be collected?

Prior to the begeining of the project an assessment of decoding srategies will be administered to all students and then again at the end of the four week implementation. Also student performance checklist during games, and teaching journal monitoring individual student progress will be in place.

3351 Action Research Seconday

1. Encouraging, Thoughtful, and Helpful Responses to High Stakes Writing: How Do Writing Teachers Do It All?

2. That comments the teacher wrote in response to the students’ work assisted them in improving not only their writing but also their attitudes and confidence about writing as well.

3. The strategy being used is reinforcing effort.

4. The evidence is in the feedback from the students along with their parents.

5. Students work and student interviews along with surveys of the parents and students.

6. The teacher listened to what the students said during their interviews. Also the surveys had a numerical rating in which only twelve of the parents actually did them write. Also the teacher looked at how the students work had changed.

7. The results showed that the use of comments did help the students with their writing.

8. The teacher plans to create a method for response that allows for greater dialogue between the teacher and the students when discussing a student’s respective piece of writing. Also that teachers need to create a writing response system that will allow teachers to respond constructively, but in a more time efficient manner.

I used a Blackberry Playbook to do my app review with. The first app I reviewed was a app for the Weather Channel. This app allows you to view the weather forecast for any city around the country. To view the forecast for a city all you have to do is enter the cities zip code or the name of the city. This app is user friendly and can come in handy for anyone especially outdoors-men.

The second app I reviewed was McGraw Hill U.S. HIstory Quiz 1. This app is designed for people like myself who are into history. The app asks multiple questions on U.S. history. One thing I liked about this app is it has some unique questions. The only downfall is that there are only 80 questions on the app. This could be helpful to some students in brushing up on their history though.