LauraEvans-ActionResearch

This week will be the eighth week of my action research study. My study deals with kindergartner's reading comprehension and whether the use of props during a story improves it or not. My study will last for ten weeks and during this time I have been alternating props in and out of three stories a week. I have chosen six students to focus my study around and after each story I have the students retell the story using a checklist that I have created. I also ask them several reading comprehension questions and take anecdotal notes in my journal. At the end of each week, I have the students circle a picture of which story they preferred that week. Thus far, my research has been going according to plan. The students have been able to recall more details from stories that I read with props. The reading comprehension questions have been about the same for stories read with and without props. The students have also preferred to hear the stories that I read with props more than ones without. I am glad that I was able to conduct this study because it was a topic I felt strongly about and truly wanted to know what the outcome would be.