Assignment 1b

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Improving Reading Skills in The Third Grade to Improve Performance

Monica Reynolds

EDU 708: Research Design in Education

Nova Southeastern University

March 13, 2021

Topic Description

Community

The community in which the proposed analysis action research project will take place is located be grade three student’s community in northwestern Mississippi. The community is in a suburban environment in which the population keeps on changing due to a high population of people coming migrating to suburban areas . and the new families being formed every year. Employment opportunities in the area include [what kind of jobs do people have]. Majority of the residents in the community work in the many industries in the area which sustains their living conditions. The population of the community is [google your city and the demographics should show]. The median income of the residents of the community is -------. The ethnic distributioin consists of -------------..

The action research paper will be conducted with the aim of improving reading skills used in elementary schools to help children to effectively learn and understand concepts which in turn will improve their performance.

School

The The district in which the proposed project will occur consists of [how many high shools, middle schools, elementary schools]. The target school proposed setting will be in an Elementary school. The school serves Grades [ K through Grade 5? 6? ]. Student enrollment is [how many?] Of that enrollment, [give demographics/ethnicity, how many Black, white, other race?].

[how many teachers? Administrators?, other staff?] How many classrooms? Are classrooms equipped with whiteboards, lcds, laptops, ---. -- i n northwestern part of Mississippi. I opted choosing the topic because based on the student’s performance, they lack background knowledge on reading comprehension. The Center has been mandated with promoting Early Learning Outcomes where l

Literacy has been explained as the knowledge and skills which that are significant in a student in elementary school learning to read, write, speak, phonological awareness. and listen. Reading has been specifically identified as interrelated skills vital in comprehending different texts meanings. The English Language Arts can in general be set to refer to effective communication and the skills necessary for comprehension (Lotherington, 2017).

Topic

The writer examined the data for Grade 3 reading performance. The data indicated a decrease in performance. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd benchmark assessments showed that Grade 3 students’ English Language Arts (ELA) performance ranged from 16.6% of students being proficient to 13.7% being proficient (see Table 1).

Table 1

Results of Third Grade, 2020-2021, Benchmark Assessments

Source: CASE 21 Benchmark Assessment Report (Bartlett, 2021).

Therefore, the topic for this project is to improve the reading performance of Grade 3 students.

Rationale for the Topic

In order for every student to become an effective reader, The Legislature in Mississippi passed the Literacy-Based Promotion Act. This act aimed at achieving highest student outcomes through Third grade public schools’ students It was enacted on July 1,2013 (Williams, 2018). More technical amendments were made to the Literacy-Based Promotion Act during the 2016 legislative session. One major amendment made was the technical amendment which was to go into effect in the 2018-2019 year of school. Promotion of fourth-grade students was to be determined by the students’ ability to achieve a score not just above the minimum level but higher than the lowest two achievement levels in reading. This implementation guide is tasked with providing an expectations framework with an understanding towards Mississippi educators with respect to Act implementation. This guide has been recommended for use by all stakeholders as a resource for providing effective literacy instructions at the ame time preventing reading failure in elementary schools especially through Grade 3.

The literacy efforts should be concentrated much on preventing reading failure with an aim of all students being able to achieve grade level proficiency by the time they finalize third grade. Literacy-based Promotion Act is incorporated and organized on a particular order starting with an established act forbidding Social promotion identified as Literacy-Based Promotion. The Act was implemented in the aim of improving students reading skills in Elementary School and in Third Grade enrollment in the public schools to make sure all students completing 3rd Grade Level are able to read. The Legislatures intention in coming up with this Act was to make sure all elementary school pupils’ progression is established, partially, in the students’ proficiency in regards to reading and also in the policies for the local school board to facilitate this proficiency.

Proposed target group

The proposed target group are all those pupils in for this action research project will be Ggrade 3 students. From a class of [how many students in your class?], the writer will select eight students. [what are their reading scores, girls/boys, ethnicity, , . .]

[Monica, this is where you will select 8 students from your class who are in need of remediation].

and exhibit deficiency in reading and performance as mandated by the State Education Department which will be enforced by teachers through observation. Intense reading instructions need to be applied to those pupils and interventions be applied immediately to help in identification of reading deficiency. Grade 3 students need to understand and profess literacy based on the skills knowledge taught in elementary school.

Table that lists the proposed target students and information

Research ethics

The ethical concerns in the research are to maintain the anonymity of the education center and the community at large and to ensure that all the people participating in the research project are also under protection. As a researcher, guaranteeing confidentiality helps to present factual results and helps all participants to express themselves freely. Identifying the changes and challenges contributed by the legislation on grade three student by using peer-reviewed literature material helps develop a strong connection with the outcome of the research. Look at chapter 4 in the textbook and quote Lochmiller and Lester (2017)

References

Bartlett, D. (2021). Teachers' Uuse of Tthird Ggrade Rreading Bbenchmark Aassessment Ddata. Need more information—is this a website? A book? A journal?

Lotherington, H. (2017). Elementary school language and literacy education for civic engagement: An evolving playbook for postmodern times. Language and Literacy, 19(3), 4-20.

Williams, K. R. (2018). What Are the Effects of the Literacy-Based Promotion Act of 2013 on the Fourth and Fifth-Grade Students' Achievement Test Scores. [is this a book? ] ProQuest LLC. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway, PO Box 1346, Ann Arbor, MI 48106.