Action Research Plan

This third week of my action inquiry involved making an action research plan. My goal is to improve the Reading TAKS scores among the Hispanic sub-group investigating what is working in Science and incorporating into REading. I plan on using ESL techniques that I learned at an ESL Academy this summer and also techniques of going from vocabulary to vocabularioo and concrete experiences. It is also important to build relationships with Hispanic students which will help to build success. I will use DMAC scores on Benchmarks and TAKS released tests. If required I will tutor students over each assessment following the objectives. I will use walk-throughs to help with observational assessments. I will also use a lot of concrete activities and move to abstract testing. Then I will also move from journaling with informal language to a more formal language. The final assessment will be the improvement of this sub-group on the TAKS test. This seems like a lot to do but as I went through the plan I realized how much of this we are already doing at our school but now just taking an area that works/Science and trying to use some of the same techniques in Reading.