Action+Research+Plan

These are the areas on which I focused in my Action Research Plan:

__**Problem:**__ Last year's 4th grade students at Flandreau Elementary tested low on standard 4.R.2.2, students can develop fluency by utilizing fluency strategies independently. The 3rd grade students last year (who are this years 4th grade students) also test low on a fluency stardard: 3.R.2.2, students can fluenctly read aloud and silently to comprehend text. Thus, we can conclude that fluency in a problem for the students we are focusing on.

__**Question:**__ Will integrating 21st Century Skills and Tools improve student achievement on standard 4.R.2.2? Specifically, will using technology engage students in a different way that will positively effect thier learning outcome while using fluency strategies?

__**Plan:**__ Integrate 21st Century Skills and Tools into my lesson plans for standard 4.R.2.2. We plan to administer a fluency pre and post test to see each students fluency level. We will use a formative assessment fluency passage each week over the course of the teaching to check for gains in student individual fluency.

__**Reflection:**__ What I learned with this project is that the more students practice with their reading, their reading shows improvement. During this project the students worked on increasing their reading fluency with a way that they enjoyed and had fun with. They enjoyed reading the phrases daily and were excited at the end of the week to see how many words they increased from the beginning of the week. Many of the students asked if we could keep reading fluency phrases because they enjoyed it. By looking at the data that I collected during this project, all of the students increased by at least 2 words (only once) up to 25+ words.

__**Implications for Future Work:**__ I plan to continue working on fluency phrases for my 3rd and 4th graders. It has been helping them improve their fluency and they seem to enjoy it. They like seeing their improvement over the week.