Progress Reflection

The first grade TPRI data from Spring 2012 proved that we didn’t meet our goal of 60 words per minute for 90% of students. We need to find ways to increase the student’s reading fluency. Increasing reading fluency will be a campus improvement goal this year. One way my site supervisor and I have decided to work towards this goal is to increase students’ reading fluency rate through implementing a new program to track student fluency. Within this program students will be tested using the TPRI assessment. From the TPRI data, we will set individual reading fluency goals for each student. The students will chart their progress in fluency folders every week. We will council each student weekly on their progress. This action research plan is a way for me to evaluate the progress of our students in hopes of reaching our fluency goal for the end of the year.

 I have been able to complete steps 1-4 of my 15 step plan. I am right on schedule with my proposed action research plan. I have been able to meet with the reading specialist to review the TPRI data from the 2011-2012 school year. We discussed the overall first grade data and found that we needed improvement in fluency and comprehension. I reviewed my action research plan with her and she supports my plan and is excited to see the results and support me and the other first grade teachers through this process. I made my fluency plan outline and shared this idea and plan with the other first grade teachers. I created the fluency folder templates and have distributed them to the other teachers. This step was very time consuming. I was able to find examples of other teacher’s templates on the internet in order to find the best possible template for my grade level to use. I have met with the other teachers every week to discuss the plan and answer any questions they may have and also listen to suggestions and make needed adjustments. Two weeks ago we administered the TPRI assessment to all first graders. We met with the reading specialist to determine who would need intervention activities and to assess the fluency rate of the first graders at the beginning of the year. We discussed fluency goals for each student based on the reading assessment. I plan on meeting with the first grade team this week to be able to review the data and set fluency goals with the teachers for their students. We also need to discuss and decide on a fluency goal for our grade level to reach on the end of the year TPRI assessment. The next week we will create the reading fluency folders and start conferring with students on their reading fluency goal and how to record their reading goals in their personal reading fluency folders. We will also discuss the goals with the student’s parents at parent conferences.