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EDU 501: Teacher as Researcher

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Action Research Project

Melinda Brothers

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Concern: Relaying the critical need for early exposure of literacy to parents.

Melinda Brothers

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Concern: Getting students to excited about reading. Students do get discourage when they recognize that they are not on their peers' level of literacy.

Melinda Brothers

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"Children who do not develop strong oral language skills and vocabulary in these early years will find it difficult to keep pace with their peers" (Neuman, 2013).

Melinda Brothers

mbrother — 2013-09-15 19:40:44 UTC

"For 60 years, action research has been an avenue for creating professional learning communities whose members engage in problem solving and for attaining individual and collective goals" (Calhoun, 2002).

Melinda Brothers

mbrother — 2013-09-15 19:43:31 UTC

Concern: Collecting a well balanced and unbiased amount of information.

Melinda Brothers

mbrother — 2013-09-15 19:44:33 UTC

Action Research is conducted to "improve the knowledge base for educational theory; as a means of personal fulfillment, empowerment, and the professionalization of teaching; and to improve and refine teaching practice specific to a teacher-researcher's context (O'Brien & Collins, 2002).

Melinda Brothers

mbrother — 2013-09-15 19:47:02 UTC

Concern: How should I best share this information with my PLC?

Melinda Brothers

mbrother — 2013-09-15 19:55:06 UTC

Resource: Richard Sagor discusses his book The Action Research Guidebook: A Four-Step Process for Educators and School Teams

Melinda Brothers

mbrother — 2013-09-15 19:57:34 UTC

Resource: David Dickinson discusses literacy exposure in pre-school (2011).

Melinda Brothers

mbrother — 2013-09-15 20:02:20 UTC

Resource: Importance of early literacy on future academic success.

Melinda Brothers

mbrother — 2013-09-15 20:04:27 UTC

Concern: Can I implement the changes that my research produces?

Melinda Brothers

mbrother — 2013-09-15 20:05:25 UTC

Concern: Ability to determine the students that have and have not had early literacy exposure.

Melinda Brothers

mbrother — 2013-09-15 20:44:06 UTC

Resource: Support for starting early literacy (Duke, 2011).

Melinda Brothers

mbrother — 2013-09-15 20:48:21 UTC

invented spelling not only allows children to write well before first grade, but it also builds essential literacy skills (Neuman et al., 2000).

Melinda Brothers

mbrother — 2013-09-15 20:55:02 UTC

Beginning during the preschool years and continuing through kindergarten, children very gradually build an understanding of how print actually works. Little by little, marks that children put on a page begin to stand on their own (Schickedanz & Casbergue, p. 6, 2004).

Melinda Brothers

mbrother — 2013-09-15 20:59:39 UTC

5 Predictors of Early Literacy

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Melinda Brothers

mbrother — 2013-09-15 21:02:39 UTC

Early Emergent Literacy Handling Books

Melinda Brothers

mbrother — 2013-09-22 15:56:29 UTC

Resource: Professional developments impact on early childhood literacy based classrooms.

Melinda Brothers

mbrother — 2013-09-22 19:10:20 UTC

Resource: Disscusses benefits of family intervention in literacy.

Melinda Brothers

mbrother — 2013-09-22 19:11:43 UTC

Resource: This article helps define readiness for kindergarten and how it may differ wirh educators and parents.

Melinda Brothers

mbrother — 2013-09-22 19:18:08 UTC

Resource: the risk factors that out of school elements may continuously play in literacy.

Melinda Brothers

mbrother — 2013-09-22 19:19:10 UTC

Resource: Provides proof of correspondence of early literacy and developing litereacy skills.

Melinda Brothers

mbrother — 2013-09-22 19:22:37 UTC

Resource: Early screening can identify children that need early literacy intervention