This was my thoughts at the beginning of the week:
I am interested in doing my action research on monitoring students that were provided reading interventions in first grade. So often we work with students that are struggling and see some progress in first grades, pass those students on and only hope they are being successful in the next grade level. Currently, my school does not monitor students from grade level to grade level. We only focus on the student while they are in our current grade level. I find it intresting that we haven't done a better job of monitoring our reading intervention program to see if students are actually making progress or continuing to struggle. I plan on focusing on students that have been in our reading intervention program in first grade and finding out how many of those students are still in reading intervention in third grade. I want to find the gaps and find the areas in which we need to give more focus. I will use TPRI, benchmarks, and STAAR testing data to help me in my research of this topic. I know this will not only benefit our students, but help guide our teachers in knowing if what we are doing is enough, and in what areas could we do more.
 Now I am wondering if this topic will be too hard to monitor and assess. My reading coach is super excited about this project and is willing to help me collect the data on all of the students. I guess I am just feeling nervous about taking on too much, but also not having a solid enough topic to complete all of the requirements. My site supervisor basically said anything I wanted to do would be fine. Any thoughts? Should I just monitor the student that are currently in first grade intervention and monitor thier progress through the year?I think not knowing all of the steps of this process and how the 7th class will go makes me very nervous. Help! Please!