Purpose of Sharing

Sharing is an important component in action research if change is the expected outcome. According to Nancy Dana (2001) Clarifying, pushing, and extending thinking helps lead to informed, positive change in traditional school practices-the critical action part of action research and the reason you began this whole inquiry journey in the first place (p. 136).   I plan on sharing my action research with administration and my campus teachers.  Based on the outcome, I hope to instill the effectiveness of fluency practice and it’s powerful impact on increasing reading levels.  The sharing would be done during faculty meetings through presentations on data collected, blogging and teacher surveys. 

During my presentation and blogging, I will provide background information, share the design of inquiry, state the learning and supporting statements with data, and provide my concluding thoughts.  It will be important to set the purpose for my action research by providing the foundation to my study.  I plan on opening the presentation with the number of students entering 3^rd grade below reading level for the 2012-2013 school year and provide data in how long it took for 3^rd graders to reach the end of year DRA by the end of the their 3^rd grade year, if applicable.  This will be critical for Kindergarten-2^nd grade teachers to hear the issues 3^rd grade teachers have when students are not entering the grade on the correct reading level.   I will share the initial data and my concerns as the campus reading intervention teacher.  In addition to this, I will share the procedures that take place with my action research.  In order to support the statements I make with data, I will generate reports for beginning of year statistics vs. end of grading period statistics.  I will have data to support where students are at the beginning of the grading period in DRA level and reading fluency (words per minute) and the progress or lack of progress at the end of each grading period.  Finally, I will share my concluding thoughts…I foresee my action research as the opening piece to Kindergarten to 2^nd grade teachers understanding the impact of fluency and implementing the fluency ideas I have on a daily basis.  We will have significant data to make informed decisions on how we get students reading on grade level.  I will use a comparison chart to compare end of year 2^nd graders for the 2012-2013 school year to the end of year 2^nd graders for the 2012-2013 school year.