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The purpose of this action research project is to utilize chunking and deliberate open-ended questions to improve the reading comprehension of a ten-year-old female in fourth grade.

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RQ1: To what extent does chunking the text and asking purposeful questions affect comprehension of grade level fiction and nonfiction texts?

RQ2: To what extent does ReadWorks have on reading motivation?

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- students have difficulty transitioning from learning to read to reading to learn mindset
- SEI students are often behind their peers due to a late acquisition of language
- Reading comprehension is directly impacted by reading fluency- when reading fluency is low, reading comprehension suffers and vice versa

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Week 1:
- Motivation survey
- Jennings IRI (initial)
- Begin reading intervention
- Introduce ReadWorks

Week 2:
- Probe interests and reading motivations
- Find ReadWorks articles that are of interest to student
- Utilize chunking and thoughtful questions
- Jennings IRI (second)

Week 3:
- Focus on text features (captions, titles, genre, etc.)
- Continue monitoring interest for ReadWorks articles
- Continue asking strategic questions during reading
- Continue breaking story into parts

Week 4:
- Final Jennings IRI
- Final Motivation survey
- Chunking
- Meaningful questions
- Text features
- Choral reading

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- study was done over only 4 weeks
- AzMERIT interrupted reading groups for 3 weeks
- study could have documented muliple students

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- Arizona spends 35% less than the national average in per pupil spending
- There are an average of 7 more students per class in Arizona than the national average
- Arizona teachers make 19% less than the national average
- These factors directly impact teacher retention and the resources students need to succeed

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- The school in this study is a Title I school located in the Southwestern United States
- The study is taking place in an SEI classroom of fourth graders
-  As mandated by the state, students are required to receive 4 hours of reading, writing, grammar, and speaking

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(study is ongoing)

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- teacher observation
- Student attitude towards reading
- Jennings IRI
- Lexile level from Achieve 3000
- Reading comprehension score from AimsWeb+