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Action Planning Template
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Goal: The Goal is to increase student performance in Reading benchmarks and fluency.
Monitoring will be done through parents’ signatures when they sit down and work with their child at home. It will also be determined if they assist to teacher-parent conferences and to school meetings.
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Action Steps(s):
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Person(s) Responsible:
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Timeline: Start/End
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Needed Resources
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Evaluation
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Meet with third grade teachers to discuss implementation.
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Third grade teachers, principal, and myself
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December
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Copy of action research rough draft, fluency and homework worksheets, parent conference documentation sheet, and fluency and benchmark charts
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Notes and suggestions from the meeting, agreement of the group to implement the plan
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Hold a parent meeting afterschool with all third grade parents.
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Principal, third grade teachers, and myself
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December
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Agenda, student current scores as a grade level, homework sheet and fluency sheet where they will sign.
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Total number of parents present at the meeting.
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Parents will time students for fluency and sign for completion and document words per minute read.
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Parents, teachers, and myself
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January- March
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Fluency worksheet with parent signature and weekly fluency charts
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Evaluate data from fluency charts
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Homework assignment sheet is where a signature is required after parent checks completion of homework.
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Parents, teachers, and myself
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January- March
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Homework sheet
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Charts teachers indicating who signed.
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Teacher- Parent conferences with low performing students
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Third grade teacher
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January - March
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Teacher- Parent conference documentation sheet
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Evaluate conference with parent/ Did the parent show up or not?
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Benchmark results for Reading
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Third grade teachers
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January- March
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Benchmark result chart
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Evaluate data from the charts
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Format based on Tool 7.1 from Examining What We Do to Improve Our Schools
(Harris, Edmonson, and Combs, 2010)
What are you going to do for parents who do not attend the meeting?
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ReplyDeleteAlejandra: What happens if not all parents can attend the after school meeting? What happens if parents are unable to read with their child or check their fluency? Will it be on a nightly basis or twice a week? How many times will they read for fluency, 2 or 3 or 6 times at each setting? How will you track the accuracy?
ReplyDeleteAlejandra....I like your idea of involving the parent with their child's fluency. GREAT! Curious...do you count off for pronunciation in fluency (not a reading teacher)? Will the parents keep track? Are the teachers determining what will be read at home? How often are they doing the readings?
ReplyDeleteSounds like a great idea and can't wait to see your results. As a middle school math teacher, I rely on reading skills for them to understand what concept to apply to the question. THEN they do math! GOOD LUCK!
I think you are off to a good start and have some wonderful ideas. I hope that you can get the parent support that you need or you have a back-up plan. An additional resource you might want to check out is I-Station Reading. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteMy wife is a reading teacher, and performed the the timed-fluency test with my youngest son. I think parents should be able to perform this task with their children. It also shows the parents how many words per minute their child can read accurately and fluentley at home. My son's teacher sent what needed to be read home with him so that all we had to was time him and circle the words that he missed, and plugged them into the formula. It was very interesting.
ReplyDeleteI am interested to see your parent involvement plan. I am at a Title 1 school and it is very difficult to get parent involvement at a fifth grade level with about half of my students. I am not sure of your diversity at your school but if you have a high Hispanic population, it might help to also have a night for the Hispanic parents. I have run across this with my own plan and student/parent surveys that need to be in English and Spanish. I am very interested to see how this plan goes. As a Science teacher, they need to be able to have a large vocabulary and be able to read in order to pass by test in April.
ReplyDeleteI am interested in seeing the outcome of your action research. Increasing students’ reading level and fluency is vitally important in today’s society. I like the way you have set up your research. You will be able to evaluate the students’ performance by comparing their reading fluency rate at the beginning and at the end of your action research. You can also compare their benchmark scores to previous 3rd grade scores and/ or how they scored versus their 2nd grade scores.
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