Action Planning Template
Goal: To evaluate the effects of parent involvement with nightly reading and their child's reading level
Action Steps(s): | Person(s) Responsible: | Timeline: Start/End | Needed Resources | Evaluation |
Research similar inquiries regarding the correlation between parent involvement and reading levels | Kristin Boyd | August 2012 – June 2013 | Articles | Reference to research to be included in final presentation of findings |
Administer a parent questionnaire to get parent's views on nightly reading homework | Kristin Boyd | August 2012 | questionnaire | Review completed questionnaires to look for trends or areas of weakness that can improve parent involvement |
Implement reading log to be signed by parents nightly | Kristin Boyd | August 2012 – May 2013 | reading log sheet to be placed in each student's binder | examine each reading log for parent signatures – this will be done each day and looked at in detail and compared with reading levels each 9 weeks |
Administer Rigby testing to determine beginning of the year reading level | Kristin Boyd | September 2012 | Rigby test kit | Analyze data collected from Rigby Test and review Rigby test information with nightly reading log data. |
Parent conferences for all students in October | Kristin Boyd | October 2012 | Reading logs, Rigby test results | Share reading levels with parents and review nightly reading log |
Re-evaluate students Rigby levels | Kristin Boyd | January 2013 | Rigby test kit | Analyze data collected from Rigby Test and review Rigby test information with nightly reading log data. |
Below level conferences - we will discuss the importance of nightly reading and in below level conferences, we will reinforce the importance as well as sign a contract for nightly reading | Below level conferences : | February 2013 and | Reading logs, Rigby test results | Share reading levels with parents and review nightly reading log |
Administer 2nd parent questionnaire to see if parent's views have changed from the initial questionnaire | Kristin Boyd | February 2013 | Questionnaire | Review the questionnaires and compare with initial results |
Administer a student survey to get their feedback on parent involvement with nightly reading | Kristin Boyd | February 2013 | Questionnaire | Review the results and compare to parent surveys |
Re-evaluate students Rigby levels | Kristin Boyd | March 2013 | Rigby test kit | Analyze data collected from Rigby Test and review Rigby test information with nightly reading log data. |
Below level conferences - we will discuss the importance of nightly reading and in below level conferences, we will reinforce the importance as well as sign a contract for nightly reading | Below level conferences : | March/April 2013 | Reading logs, Rigby test results | Share reading levels with parents and review nightly reading log |
Re-evaluate students Rigby levels | Kristin Boyd | May 2013 | Rigby test kit | Analyze data collected from Rigby Test and review Rigby test information with nightly reading log data. |
Examine the results and compile results to be presented to administration | Kristin Boyd | June 2013 | Data collected throughout the year on reading levels and reading logs | Present findings to administration |
Publish my findings to my action research blog | Kristin Boyd | June 2013 | Report | Feedback from peers |
Format based on Tool 7.1 from Examining What We Do to Improve Our Schools
(Harris, Edmonson, and Combs, 2010)
I like your action research. I believe it's very important for parents to be involved in their child's literacy. I like the parent contact by sharing nightly reading logs. It looks like your don't have much support from anyone else in the school, is there anyone who will be helping with this or you will be doing this completely on your own?
ReplyDeleteYou chose a great action research topic! Two things that I believe affect a child furthering their education is whether or not they are good readers, and parent involvement. So, I think you have chosen a great topic, and I'm interested to see what you find out. Are you giving the surveys to just your class? If so, is there a way to get more of your colleague's classes involved? And like the post before mine said, it looks like you are doing a lot of this on your own, I hope that you can find some other people on your campus who can help you out so that it's not so much work for you to do alone. Good luck, and I'm looking forward to hearing your results!
ReplyDeleteI think this is a great action research topic. As teachers we know that our better readers are usually the ones who have parent involvement. I think it would be great to take your results, keeping confidentiality in mind, and share those with parents of low level readers who are not so involved. If you could show a graph that depicts higher reading levels with higher parent involvement and signed reading logs at your February and April conferences maybe some of those parents will see the importance of reading with their child on regular basis. I look forward to following your results.
ReplyDeleteI love your idea of the parent questionnaire and student survey. This is a great research topic and one that is close to home. I would be anxious to see the results to you parent questionnaire. What grade levels are you focusing on? I would suggest keeping your group small and not tackle something to large.
ReplyDeleteThis would also be a great long term study tracking kids through 3 or more years of school. Are you only testing one grade level? I agree that it looks like you will be compiling a lot of data...getting other grade level teachers to help would be very helpful. Good Luck!
ReplyDeleteKristin, I love this project concept. My only thoughts are how can you really measure what's going on at home? The "reading" may not be quality reading. I'm not sure it's really effective to have a kid read a book when the parent's really not following along to help out. One of my friend's daughter's is like this. If read with her she's forced to sound out every word. If I step away for a second, she suddenly is skipping words. It sounds like she's reading unless you're really paying attention... Just a thought. Also, I know with sports and activities, sometimes every night is really not possible. I don't know if you've made any allotment for this or if you're able to track those who read 3 days/week vs 5 days/week, etc... There are days I get home from work at 6, barely have time to feed my son before he has a game, and we're getting home at 8:30/9:00 from a game.
ReplyDeleteI really love this concept and I'm very passionate about it. I have really wondered if the reason my son is so advanced in reading is because we've always read to him and with him from a very young age or if it was his daycare program or if he's just genetically inclined to be gifted. I'd love to see how your project works out!